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Homemade Food Packages Were a Lifeline in Prison. New York Has Banned Them.
My mother used to send taffy to brighten life behind bars. Facing the holidays is grim under New York’s new rules.
A whirlwind day for Luigi Mangione ends with new charges, revelations from a notebook and transfer to a federal prison
Luigi Mangione had a busy Thursday, with a whirlwind two-state courthouse tour turned spectacle featuring a helicopter ride, ...
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NY prison guards brutally threatened, humiliated and sodomized inmates in raid, judge rules
Marcy, NY — Dozens of New York prison guards and their supervisors brutally attacked a dorm full of unsuspecting inmates — punching, kicking and sodomizing prisoners and destroying their ...
A New York jail houses two of 2024's most high-profile cases: What to know about MDC Brooklyn
Luigi Mangione was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, the same federal jail where Sean Combs is housed.
New York man pleads guilty to burglaries in Boston suburbs targeting Asian families, officials say
Juan Castano, 32, was sentenced to four to five years in state prison as “a common and notorious thief” after pleading guilty to the charges, the Middlesex district attorney’s office said.
Why has New York’s prison population declined?
The national prison population started a slow decline after hitting its peak in the late 2000s. In New York, prison decarceration has been more rapid.
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York County leaders bring barbershop to prison to get inmates ready for reentry
It all started as an idea that Chawna Griffith-Myers had. She's the executive director of the York County Reentry Coalition, ...
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New York's governor orders firing of prison staffers involved in inmate's fatal beating
New York’s governor has ordered more than a dozen state prison staffers fired over the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this month NEW YORK -- New York's governor has ordered more than ...
Prison guards' use of force is rarely deemed excessive by federal courts and judges, analysis shows
Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme ...