President Donald Trump’s administration has launched a massive expansion of immigration detention, a crucial step toward fulfilling Trump’s pledge to carry out mass deportations.

Federal officials want to increase the number of beds from 41,500 to 100,000 nationwide by awarding billion-dollar contracts to private prison companies, primarily GEO and CoreCivic. Both companies’ stock prices surged by more than 60% after Trump’s reelection.

WAVERLY, NEW YORK — After months of alleged harassment, she drove to the police department and walked into the one-story brick building. The process of reporting an officer wasn’t new to her. Two years prior, she had filed an aggravated harassment complaint about him with her local police department 30 minutes away.

She took a seat in the police chief’s office, preparing to file another complaint, when her phone buzzed. It was a text from Craig Elston, the very officer she had come to report, c...

With her counselor and assistant principal by her side, a high school senior walked into Officer Moses Robinson’s office at Early College High School in Rochester. She turned to Robinson for help, her school resource officer, a policeman who has long been praised for his work in the community.

The teen had been victimized by a revenge porn posting by her ex-boyfriend; the boy had secretly filmed and shared their sexual encounter online.

“I'm going to get the shame, he's going to get the glory,...

A student at SU woke to find her car keys missing. She reported a burglary and Syracuse Police responded. The next day, her car was stolen.

More than 100 people gathered in a circle in the shade of Andrews Park. They were Christian faith leaders, Native American elders, toddlers, activists with decades of experience and first-time protesters, all bound by the same goal: to walk almost 40 miles in three days to advocate for immigrant rights.

The new law’s automatic sealing of criminal records paves the way for 2.1 million New Yorkers to overcome barriers to employment, housing and education.