All news on the topic: Criminal Justice Reforms

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, along with supporters of New York's criminal justice reforms, want to act as if addressing its shortcomings requires fully bringing back cash..

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie states he has no plans to alter New York's controversial overhaul of the criminal justice system, which has angered prosecutors, police, and some judges by eliminating most bail requirements and mandating the early disclosure of evidence in cases

Outrageous: Reputed Crips gang-banger Courtney Thompson got barely a wristslap for flinging a bucket of water at two police officers’ heads.

The stunning omission came despite his publicly admitting earlier this week that the brand new bail-reform law is in need of "changes," Cuomo didn't once mention the pressing issue in his sprawling speech.

New York’s Legislature returns to work today, with one urgent priority: Fix the botched criminal-justice “reforms” it passed last year.

The bail reforms have come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks as prosecutors charge the changes leave them unable to hold suspects in many of the hate crimes cases they are investigating.

A campaign to revise New York’s controversial new no-bail law has catapulted to the top of the legislative agenda in 2020 as moderate Democrats try to limit the political fallout from the ­reforms.

With New York state’s “no bail” law now putting all but the most violent accused criminals back on the streets soon after their arrests, and also forcing prosecutors to jump through new hoops, we fear that NYPD overtime won’t shrink — but soar.

Thanks to New York state’s new “no-bail” law, near-instant release is mandated unless a suspect is charged with one of a handful of violent crimes.

Farkell Hopkins, 23, was arrested on charges of vehicular manslaughter and DWI at the scene of the deadly New Year's Eve collision, but was cut loose before he was even arraigned.

Tiffany Harris, 30, was kept in custody for the mandatory tests at an unspecified city hospital following a Brooklyn criminal court hearing, on the orders of Judge Joseph Gubbay.

Tiffany Harris -- arrested and released twice in three days after being charged in separate misdemeanor assaults in Brooklyn, including on a trio of Orthodox Jewish women -- was arrested a third time on New Year's Eve.