Jan Ransom

Gov. Kathy Hochul said that early reports suggested “extremely disturbing conduct” leading to the death of Messiah Nantwi, 22, in an upstate prison.

Thousands of corrections officers at dozens of prisons have been protesting working conditions in wildcat strikes across the state.

New York Attorney General Recuses Herself From Inquiry Into Prison Death

Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other New York City lockups that have been plagued by violence and deaths in custody.

The Department of Investigation, tasked with stamping out corruption in city government, has lost more than a quarter of its employees since 2019.

In all, 10 officers were charged in connection with the vicious beating of Messiah Nantwi, 22, at the Mid-State Correctional Facility, which left him bloodied and unrecognizable.

During a daylong hearing in Albany, state lawmakers heard from family members of men who died in New York State prisons in recent years.

Harvey Weinstein was convicted of sex crimes in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to 16 years in prison. His lawyer has promised to appeal.

Michael Nieves, 40, was awaiting trial on Rikers Island when he tried to kill himself in 2022. The staff response to his suicide drew a harsh rebuke from the New York State attorney general and watchdog groups.

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.