Bill de Blasio and the correctional officers’ union say the crisis at Rikers Island is about understaffing. But no number of guards will solve the underlying problems with the jail.

A prison built on trash heaps and racism could become a job-providing source of clean energy for some of the most polluted boroughs of New York City.

Petitions for early release reveal the contours of people’s lives before incarceration, conditions on the inside, and what might come after.

Conservative opponents of cash bail reform in New York saw an opportunity in the pandemic—and took it.

Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination

The U.S. criminal legal system protected him for years—and then it failed him, just as it has failed countless people of color who are put behind bars.