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Friday, Federal Monitor Steve Martin will submit his latest report on the situation at the ignominious Rikers Island complex. It will come just over four months after Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the city to put into practice an action plan to address the consistent threat to the…

NEW YORK — The family of the latest detainee to die in New York City jails has filed a wrongful death claim against the Correction Department.

The impact of deer on Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environment is never far from the headlines. Most recently, the Southland Conservation Board highlighted the damage the introduced species was doing to native forest on Rakiura Stewart Island.

With one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, Oklahoma has struggled for decades to properly staff its prisons

A former executive assistant to disgraced public servant Paul Whyte allegedly broke the rules in exchange for expensive gifts and luxury dinners before agreeing to pin the blame on Whyte himself, a Corruption and Crime Commission report finds.

As an outdoors group goes into bat for more national parkland, the land stewardship review process is called into question.

NEW YORK — An exhaustive report on 10 of the 16 deaths in 2021 in city jails details a range of staffing problems, systemic failures and mismanagement by jail staff that contributed to the fatalities.

Hundreds of endangered sea turtles have been caught in New Zealand’s commercial fisheries since 2002, according to a recent report released by the Department of Conservation (DOC).

The DEA recently abandoned a proposal for placing five tryptamines as Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act.