Jan Ransom

New York’s premier monitoring program for people with mental illness has broken down repeatedly, including in five cases involving subway shovings.

A seemingly endless rotation between state forensic hospitals and city jails has meant that some mentally ill detainees stay in the system for years without ever standing trial.

The city has poured funding into a program to aid severely mentally ill people while doing little to ensure it was getting results, an audit shows.

Eight correction officers and a captain stood by for seven minutes and 51 seconds as Nicholas Feliciano tried to hang himself in a jail cell in 2019.

A new jury would hear from only one or both of the women whom he was convicted of assaulting, in what analysts say will be a much narrower and weaker case.

A complaint filed by the Legal Aid Society and others accuses the state prison system of holding mentally ill and disabled people in isolation despite a law against the practice.

New York’s highest court tossed out the 2020 sex crime convictions of Harvey Weinstein in a reversal of a case that ignited the #MeToo movement.

The authorities were searching for the detainee, a 35-year-old man with a history of mental illness, after he eluded two guards at Bellevue Hospital Center.

Prosecutors pursuing corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams appear to have some solid evidence, but winning a conviction is far from a given, experts say.

David Banks and Philip Banks III eclipsed their younger brother by rising to help run New York City. Then federal prosecutors seized the phones of all three men.