In an ironic twist, the Board of Correction’s plan to vote on a controversial proposal from the Department of Correction to use technology to digitize detainees’ mail was thwarted by faulty technology on Tuesday.
Read MoreQueens District Attorney Melinda Katz along with the mayor and police commissioner announced the indictments of nearly two dozen alleged Northwest Queens gang members in connection with gun and conspiracy charges on Tuesday.
Read More“We're entitled to make our rules,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said after a lawsuit was filed alleging that she improperly ended the chief judge nomination of Hector LaSalle. “I'm disappointed, but the reality is that I think it was pretty clear in the committee meeting the votes were not there for Judge LaSalle.”
Read More“This is not fair, this is deplorable,” one community board chair said of the mayor’s proposed budget. “We paid some of the highest taxes in the city per capita. We're not getting anything over here except more shelters, less transportation, less supermarkets. I mean, what are we doing? I'm beating my head against the wall.”
Read MoreThe Queens County Democratic Party voted to support five candidates to fill five judicial vacancies on the Queens Civil Court bench last week.
Read MoreRocco’s of Roc Beach is the best pizza joint in all of Queens, according to the Queens Chamber of Commerce’s first-ever Best Pizza Competition, which wrapped up last week.
Read MoreThe New York Independent Redistricting Commission will hold a hearing in Queens this week to gather feedback on its proposed Assembly district map. What’s at stake?
Read MoreA lawsuit was filed on Thursday demanding that a judge order the State Senate to take a full vote on Governor Kathy Hochul’s nominee for chief judge of the Court of Appeals, three weeks after the nominee was rejected by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee in a 10-9 vote.
Read More“It's a great day to be able to get out with people and just kind of BS and talk about what their favorite bagels are and the experiences we had – it's just a great vessel for conversation.”
Read More“At 16-years-old, I waived my rights without understanding them, and that culminated in a false confession that ultimately cost me 16 years in prison for murder and rape prior to DNA evidence exonerating me. But my case is not the only one.”
Read More“It's really disgusting that we're even being put in this situation, to be always trying to survive, scraping by with a law degree and with the amount of experience that we have,” said one Legal Aid Society attorney. Contract negotiations between the attorneys’ union and the Legal Aid Society have been ongoing for seven months.
Read MoreThe Department of Correction named a new official to help lead its health programming – an appointment that comes as the agency continues to face allegations that it has failed to provide medical treatment to detainees on Rikers Island.
Read MoreWhat do court officials have to say about the governor’s recent budget proposal?
Read MoreIn his latest attempt to combat unlicensed weed sellers shopping their wares in the now-legal marijuana market, Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said on Tuesday that they’re turning to the civil law book.
Read MoreAn elderly man died on Rikers Island over the weekend, marking the first time an incarcerated individual has died in the troubled jail facility this year.
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