Jan Ransom

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

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.

A model reported to the police in 2015 that the producer had groped her. Allegations of sexual misconduct piled up in the ensuing years.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

New York Attorney General Recuses Herself From Inquiry Into Prison Death

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.

A 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., died Saturday. Nine inmates said he was viciously beaten by corrections officers.

The 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility, one of dozens of state prisons where corrections officers have walked off the job over working conditions.

Gov. Kathy Hochul began sending the National Guard to New York’s prisons, where officers have refused to come to work in protest of what they say are hazardous conditions.

The attacks occurred years earlier when Bennie Thorpe worked at a state women’s prison, his accusers said. Now he runs a prison where an inmate was fatally beaten by guards.

Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Eric Adams’s former top adviser, and her son, Glenn Martin II, are charged in state court with taking $100,000 in bribes.

N.Y. Attorney General Recuses Herself in Case of Fatal Prison Beating

Guards in Fatal Prison Assault Were Accused of Beating Inmates Before

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York moved to try to contain the fallout from the death of Robert Brooks, in which 14 corrections workers have been implicated.