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

City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his appointment of five new city agency commissioners Saturday afternoon — including the ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Stanley Richards as the new Commissioner of the Department of Correction.

Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.

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

New York’s total bill to post the National Guard in prisons — a response to last year’s corrections officers strike — is set ...

Supporters of the End Prison Violence campaign rallied Monday in Albany, discussing what further changes need to be made in the New York state prison system.

This article was published in partnership with Caught, the new podcast on juvenile justice from WNYC Studios and the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal-justice ...

Federal prosecutors said a man was arrested after he impersonated an F.B.I. agent during a visit to the federal jail in ...