Jan Ransom

Jeffrey Epstein used his money and influence in the world of elite private schools to assist friends and acquaintances.

The bills, which have already passed the State Legislature, would help prevent brutality in prisons, supporters say. But the governor has yet to enact them.

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates?

Prison guards have been accused of more than 120 acts of brutality that amounted to torture in the past decade in New York, a Times investigation found.

As frustrations among corrections officers mount, abusive treatment of inmates is rising and becoming more vicious, records and interviews show.

State prison guards say they are doing so because their jobs have become more dangerous. A New York Times analysis points to a different reality.

State Senator Julia Salazar of New York said the officers accused of assault and sexual abuse in a 2023 case should face consequences.

A New York prisoner accused corrections officers of assault and sexual abuse. State prison officials investigated and deemed his claims unfounded despite footage of the encounter.

The New York Times has obtained video of the 2022 death of Michael Nieves, a mentally ill detainee who mortally wounded himself on Rikers Island.

Mr. Weinstein, the former Hollywood mogul, was convicted on one sexual assault charge and acquitted on another. The jury could not reach a verdict on a third.