By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now! New York police in full riot gear stormed Columbia University and the City College of New York Tuesday night, arresting over 300 students to…
Campaigners pressuring Citibank say they see the bank as potentially movable on its funding of fossil fuels, citing the company’s commitments to sustainability.
ICE belives Pascal “Shakoure” Charpentier is a citizen of Haiti. A pardon from Gov. Hochul would keep him from being deported to a country he's never visited.
On Jan. 19, New York City Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a bill that would have effectively banned solitary confinement in his city’s jails. Incarcerated writer Chris Blackwell and CUNY Law…
The mayor pushed hard to try and win over Councilmembers, but instead even more members voted to override his vetoes than had originally voted in support of the bills.
ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky started investigating police oversight after an NYPD officer hit a teenager with a car in 2019. In the years since, he’s learned how police departments have…
"With this veto, the mayor has condemned New Yorkers to suffer in solitary confinement and isolation, and he did so after the cameras were turned off and backs were turned,"…
"We are trying to show how it feels to be trapped in a city you can't leave," one participant said.
Or Should It Be Good Riddance?
“I am really the ambassador for everyone’s pain,” Yusef Salaam said during the campaign.
Four formerly incarcerated women reflect on the abuse they suffered by correctional officers and staff. The Adult Survivors Act offers them a chance for justice.
Here’s what we can learn from abolitionists who are organizing in some of the most conservative parts of the country.
The case against Carl Miller has collapsed since he was convicted of an infamous 1979 murder. But winning exoneration remains elusive.
An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen…
The Office of the Inspector General, the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau and the City Council’s Oversight and Investigations Committee all pass the buck on controversial case.
