Stanley Richards is taking over as correction commissioner at an inflection point for the city’s jails. Mayor Zohran Mamdani ...

Socialist mayor appoints Stanley Richards as corrections commissioner, making him the first ex-con to hold the role as New York City pushes reforms.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (Reuters) -A jury convicted a former New York correctional officer of murder in the fatal beating of an inmate late last ...

A New York prison guard who failed to intervene as he watched an inmate being beaten to death should be convicted of manslaughter, a prosecutor told a jury Thursday in the final trial of correctional ...

A New York prison guard accused of failing to intervene in the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment.

On Friday, a Queens judge vacated the double-murder conviction of Allen Porter. Jabbar Collins, who was exonerated 16 years ago, never stopped fighting for the friend he met in custody.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A jury convicted a former New York correctional officer of murder in the fatal beating of an inmate late last year while acquitting two other former guards in the killing, which ...