An empty Mike and Ike Fruit Chews box dropped on a Brooklyn sidewalk triggered a police confrontation that ended with Manuel Morales’ face shoved to the sidewalk and covered in bruises &mdash…

A correction officer accused in a caught-on-video beating of a handcuffed and defenseless detainee in a Rikers Island jail has been promoted to lead a Correction Department unit criticized for usin…

When correction staff failed to aid an asthmatic older man struggling for life in a Rikers Island jail, his fellow detainees were moved to act themselves. Two detainees picked up Herminio Villanuev…

The number of complaints in the year jumped 50% over 2022, when 3,700 complaints were filed, the Civilian Complaint Review Board reported.

Yong Chin Son fell 18 feet through a hole covered by loose planks on the 11th story of the old Brooklyn House of Detention in Brooklyn Heights.

Disturbing body-worn camera video captured New York City correction officers bragging about beating up a detainee locked up in a mental observation unit on Rikers Island, a new federal monitor repo…

Critics say the NYPD is in danger of becoming overly political as it seeks to burnish its image, that there is a line between promoting good police work and taking a political stand on issues like …

An NYPD detective assigned to the office of Police Commissioner Edward Caban was arrested over the weekend for shoplifting in a Long Island Home Depot.

A physician banned from Rikers Island for his outspoken social media posts on jail issues — costing him his contract job with the city’s Correctional Health Services agency — sued…

The Correction Department recently selected a small company founded by a retired NYPD sergeant for a contract potentially worth up to $1 million to supply women’s hygiene products to the city…

A new report documents widespread deterioration of fire safety, sanitation and building infrastructure at Rikers Island and the rest of the aging New York City jails system, the Daily News has lear…

Dionisio Rosario, a member of the Emergency Services Unit, used improper force during a search against a man held in the Robert N. Davoren Center on April 4, 2023, prosecutors said.

The retired NYPD sergeant accusing mayoral adviser Timothy Pearson of sexual harassment and retaliation says she spoke three times with a City Hall investigator but ultimately decided not to pursue…

Correction Department workers are suspected of building the lounge in the James A. Thomas Center, a 90-year-old facility vacated in 2015.

Charizma Jones, 23, died Sunday after she suffered a medical episode while on Rikers, then taken to Elmhurst Hospital, according to sources familiar with her case.

Capt. Gabrielle Walls, a 23-year veteran from a family of police officers, alleges Assistant Chief Scott Henderson tried to kiss her on the lips on Sept. 6, 2022 in the 84th Precinct station house …

Look on the NYC.gov website for the Local Conditional Release Commission — its job is weighing early release for people sentenced to Rikers Island and other city jails — and all youR…

A burglary suspect held in a Rikers Island jail died early Tuesday of a possible overdose after complaining of chest pain and then having a seizure, the Daily News has learned. Felix Taveras, 40, b…

I often listen to the voice memos my brother Esias left me while he was caged on Rikers Island. As I replay them to savor the sound of his voice, I am haunted by the fear and confusion I hear in it…

The New York City Board of Correction (BOC), the civilian watchdog for the city’s jails, is one of the oldest independent oversight agencies in the country. The BOC has a charter-mandated obl…

Today, the Gotham Book Prize, an annual award that began during the first year of the pandemic to honor and support the best writing about New York City, whether fiction or nonfiction, announced it…

An assault suspect held in a Rikers Island jail got his hands on a Correction Department uniform Thursday night and walked around pretending to conduct rounds in a possible attempt to escape, accor…

A bombshell notice of intent to sue alleges Louis Molina and top aides gave orders to withhold information from federal monitor Steve Martin, who is empowered to track violence and use of force in …

Bronx DA Darcel Clark wants more money for housing and mental health services, noting that crimes like a running subway gun battle that left five wounded and one dead Feb. 13 had to be addressed th…

A correction officer abandoned their post in a Rikers Island jail for more than two hours in apparent violation of Correction Department rules before discovering an unresponsive inmate who later di…

The feds should take control of the long-troubled Rikers Island jail complex from New York City, the Manhattan U.S. attorney said Monday. Damian Williams said he would ask a judge to place the noto…

A little-known but aggressive NYPD campaign to collect the digital fingerprints of cellphones from people in custody has raised concerns among civil liberties experts. Each cellphone has a unique 1…

The dispute is a central element of the sexual harassment lawsuit filed last week by retired NYPD Sgt. Roxanne Ludemann alleging Mayoral aide Timothy Pearson inappropriately touched her.

The head of the city Correction Department’s Investigation Division — a key unit that investigates a wide range of staff misconduct — has stepped down over questions about his han…

An NYPD lieutenant was put on modified duty after he allegedly kicked and beat a suspect after a high-speed chase on Manhattan’s FDR Drive.

A recently retired NYPD sergeant alleges in a lawsuit that Timothy Pearson, a senior adviser to Mayor Adams, repeatedly touched her inappropriately, asked her sexually suggestive questions and then…

A respected physician who treated thousands of patients at Rikers Island over nearly five years was abruptly banned from the jails in November for his outspoken critiques of Correction Department m…

A second correction captain has been suspended for internally raising concerns about department operations, the Daily News has learned. Capt. Marat Chmut, an 18-year veteran officer, was suspended …

NYPD officer Hieu Tran, who works in the social media unit for the NYPD’s press office, has been busted for attempted murder for shooting a driver in New Jersey in a road rage confrontation, …

The leader of a Black Lives Matter group in the city accused Mayor Adams Wednesday of blocking an annual Juneteenth celebration thrown by the group in a South Bronx park.

Police body camera video obtained by The News captures the moment police officers corralled and roughed up a young Brooklyn man last year for “littering” — supposedly throwing a box of candy on the…

New York City’s Probation Department has cut programs and its workers gripe of low pay — but its commissioner, Juanita Holmes, has an $87,000 city-funded luxury car.

Correction Commissioner Louis Molina’s trip with seven aides in September to London and Paris cost New York City taxpayers around $40,000, according to records provided to the Daily News via a Free…

DOI probers have asked the NYPD for a wide range of records related to personnel procedures, discretionary promotions and disciplinary charges. The agency was previously investigating Pearson for h…

There’s no mistaking Manhattan Federal Judge Colleen McMahon’s dislike of city Department of Correction stonewalling — ire she says has been building over her 24 years on the benc…

Molina is stepping down from his post to become a public safety adviser to Mayor Adams, City Hall announced Tuesday — as the feds are poised to potentially take over Rikers Island, where a legacy o…

NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban declined to discipline Deputy Chief Gerard Dowling on charges of mistreating a protester in Manhattan in 2020.

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Correction Commissioner Louis Molina ordered the suspension of a correction captain working for a city anti-corruption agency for not signing in at a jail, the Daily News has learned. Molina’…

Three New York City correction officers falsified records to hide their failure to conduct required cell checks before detainee Anthony Scott hanged himself in a holding pen in the Manhattan courts…

New York City has agreed to pay up to $53 million to roughly 4,400 people who were held in extremely restrictive housing areas on Rikers Island in violation of guidelines laid down by a city jail w…

Four Rikers Island staffers were suspended from their jobs in the fallout over the death of a detainee believed to have suffered a drug overdose, Correction Department sources said Thursday. Two co…

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander this week decided that the circumstances surrounding the death of Kevin Bryan, 35, on Sept. 14, 2022 were so egregious, as disclosed in a Board of Correction r…

Just two Correctional Health Services staffers were disciplined out of the 44 deaths at Rikers Island and New York City jails since January 2021. Detainee advocates say many cases were mishandled.

Dramatic body-worn camera video obtained by the Daily News shows the NYPD operation to clear Columbia’s Hamilton Hall of pro-Palestinian protesters on April 30 from the perspective of the sergeant …

Irene Urena Perez was walking through the Bronx with her mother and a neighbor’s toddler when a police bullet pierced her side. It happened as she and her mom were bringing their neighborR…

A recently retired NYPD sergeant alleges in a lawsuit that Timothy Pearson, a senior adviser to Mayor Adams, repeatedly touched her inappropriately, asked her sexually suggestive questions and then…

The poster for the Whitestone Republican Club event, featuring Chell in uniform and dubbed “Special Event: NYC In Crisis!,” raised eyebrows from ex-NYPD officials and government ethics …

The Correction Department’s top internal investigator was forced to step down after the federal monitor overseeing New York City’s jails learned that line investigators were being press…

He’s known by the nickname AButta — and Correction Department investigators had evidence the Rikers Island officer wasn’t very sick when he was on paid sick leave and organized a …

A mentally ill man who spent the past year in a Rikers Island jail is in a medically induced coma with life-threatening pneumonia and a dangerous infection that his family says was not properly tre…

A high ranking NYPD Internal Affairs official pressured an active duty lieutenant to withdraw his account of sexual harassment and retaliation by senior mayoral adviser Timothy Pearson, a new lawsu…

Retired Sgt. Michael Ferrari alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court that after he backed Ludemann’s claims against Pearson, Pearson convinced NYPD Chief of Department Jeffr…

The Legal Aid Society, which said last week jail staff “repeatedly ignored” Jones’ requests for medical help, called on the Board of Correction to investigate Jones’ death, …

The Correction Department for the first time has installed a body scanner at a Rikers Island jail to check correction officers and civilian staff for contraband, the Daily News has learned. A photo…

Correction Commissioner Louis Molina recently tapped a longtime colleague and former union rep for state prison guards with no apparent experience as an investigator for the No. 2 spot in the unit …

Members of the city Board of Correction on Wednesday sued the Correction Department for blocking access to security video at Rikers Island and other jails necessary to perform its oversight role. T…

Most of the questions in the sergeants exam given on Aug. 3 and 4, 2022 were passed on in screenshots from cops in internet chat groups, and 35 questions and answers out of the 100 total questions …

FBI agents raided the Brooklyn home of a key Mayor Adams fundraiser, Brianna Suggs, as part of a corruption probe. The news broke as Adams abruptly canceled meetings on the migrant crisis he was su…

A group of City Council members is introducing a series of proposals Tuesday aimed at reducing the jail population from the current level of just under 6,000 to 3,300. That’s the level mandat…

Soon after he was named chair of the city Board of Correction, Dwayne Sampson floated a plan to help young New York City black men that could have benefitted non-profits in which he is a leader &md…

A Staten Island criminal suspect stricken with cancer died in the Bellevue Hospital jail ward, triggering charges Friday that because of his illness he never should have been locked up in the first…

Dr. Robert Cohen joined "Inside City Hall" on Tuesday.

Charles and Kenneth Sicknick told the Daily News on Friday that Trump’s appearance at the Long Island wake for Diller was nothing more than a highly inappropriate political stunt.

From Jan. 1, 2020 through Jan. 1, 2022, the database contained just under 18 million recorded calls, based on a disclosure by the Correction Department.

Correction officers have been systematically strip-searching detainees in the Manhattan criminal courthouses, even after they have already been thoroughly searched in their respective jails on Rike…