Report: Mentally Ill Rikers Inmates Kept In Solitary At Alarming Rate
A new report paints a grim picture of mentally ill prisoners kept in solitary confinement at Rikers Island, and advocates have expressed hope that it leads to action.
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A new report paints a grim picture of mentally ill prisoners kept in solitary confinement at Rikers Island, and advocates have expressed hope that it leads to action.
New research finds marital bliss may depend on who cools down quickest after a heated argument.
Using eye-tracking technology similar to that used to train doctors in laparoscopic surgery, Emory University researchers have been able to watch and quantify a baby's gaze between 2 and 6 months old.
The approval of Proposition 1 in Tuesday's voting allows for the building of four non-American Indian-owned upstate casinos in the Southern Tier near Binghamton, the Catskills and Mid-Hudson Valley region, and the Saratoga Springs-Albany area.
Emboldened by a historic landslide, Bill de Blasio seeks to push ahead with an ambitious liberal agenda aimed at easing the economic inequality.
The 727 students at Washington Rose Elementary School stood together and held hands as they recited their new anti-bullying pledge Wednesday.
A judge has ruled that a Long Island mother found not guilty because of mental disease in the 2008 drowning of her three children cannot inherit money from their $350,000 estate.
An extra-alarm fire was raging Wednesday afternoon in the town recycling plant in Long Branch, N.J.
Michael Skakel will remain in jail, but has been granted the possibility of getting out on bail while he awaits a second trial in the 1975 murder of neighbor Martha Moxley, CBS 2's Lou Young reported.
Genevieve Sabourin was arrested in April 2012, nearly a week after Baldwin became engaged to yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas.
Between June 11 and July 14, prosecutors said Amanda Iles, 27, engaged in sexual encounters with a boy who was then 14. The boy was a student at Archbishop Stepinac High School where Iles taught religion, prosecutors said.
"Mayor-elect de Blasio ran on a platform of changing stop-and-frisk and the people overwhelmingly supported that yesterday, so I hope the administration realizes - number one - this is going to happen anyway in two months," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler.
In a campus-wide letter sent Wednesday, Christina Paxson said she is forming a committee made up of faculty and students about the Oct. 29 lecture.
Most people know the Great Lawn, Bethesda Fountain and the Central Park Zoo, but WLNY's Alex Denis stopped by the park Wednesday morning to check out some of its hidden treasures.
Day, a Republican, defeated Democrat David Fried for the seat, which had been held by C. Scott Vanderhoef for 20 years.
