Mayor Zohran Mamdani directed city agencies to make plans to comply with rules governing health and safety at the facilities, and said they must work to end solitary confinement.

A federal jail with a documented history of power outages, staffing shortages and detainee complaints just got two more high-profile detainees.

Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are currently being held in New York's famed Manhattan Detention Center.

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The facility where detained Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been taken is a notorious New York jail that has held a string of high-profile and celebrity criminals, from drug cartel leaders to hip-hop stars.

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The New York City Planning Commission on Tuesday approved Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to build four borough-based jails in an effort to close Rikers Island. The plan now goes to a City Council subcommittee, which holds a hearing ...

State officials are set to close another prison in upstate New York, following the approval of the 2026 state budget. The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed Tuesday it will shutter Bare Hill Correctional Facility in ...

Maduro's Jan. 3 arrest on narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine-importation conspiracy and weapons charges, is good for the country, Ortega said, because it gives hope to Venezuelans who doubted he would ever be held accountable for his conduct.