Tag: jail
Maggot-infested meals being served inmates at Brooklyn federal jail, lawyers say
Brooklyn’s troubled federal jail has been serving maggot-infested beans to detainees, according to defense lawyers. The apparent barf-inducing food conditions at the Metropolitan Detention...
NYC Mayor Adams names two people to 5-member jail release commission
Mayor Adams has finally tapped two people to fill long-vacant spots on a five-member commission that has the power to release people held...
Ex-NYC correction officer convicted of smuggling contraband into jail made NYCHA...
A former New York City correction officer who served prison time for smuggling contraband into the jails and wrote a book about his...
New York law making adultery punishable by jail time may soon...
A 1907 New York law making adultery punishable by up to three months behind bars may soon come off the books. The misdemeanor offense...
Robinho arrested after being sentenced to nine years in jail for...
Former Manchester City footballer Robinho has been arrested at his home in Brazil after a judge ruled he should spend nine years in...
Carlee Russell avoids jail after pleading guilty to faked abduction, cites...
Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who lied to police about seeing a toddler on a busy interstate, then faking her own kidnapping, has...
NYC cites improvements in jail system in brief opposing outside takeover
New York City filed its expected opposition to an outside takeover of the jails Tuesday, arguing that there has been improvement in the...
After years in jail, career criminal’s reunion with daughter cut short
An ex-con who was recently killed in front of a Bronx apartment building was released from prison just a few months ago, enjoying...
Gypsy Rose Blanchard ditches social media to avoid going ‘back to...
Gypsy Rose Blanchard — the Missouri woman recently released after serving nearly eight years for conspiring with her ex-boyfriend to kill her abusive...