correctional facilities

The state corrections ombudsperson said use of isolation cells is exceeding limits set out in 2019 legislation.

Immigrants' rights groups want detention unit closed, detainees released to families.

More than one year after the first 2,500 people were released in late 2020, new data shows about 9% of those were re-incarcerated. That’s just more than half the state’s overall pre-pandemic, one-year recidivism rate of 16%.

Staff at New York jails and prisons are taking the COVID-19 vaccines at less than half the rate of other congregate settings and the general population.

JB Nicholas was released from prison in 2003. Now, he's ready to go back, documenting the austere, putty-colored world of the state's correctional facilities through the lens of his camera.