Beth Fertig

Urooj Rahman and Colinford King Mattis are being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, after the federal government successfully challenged their release.

A donation from George Soros’s Open Society Institute is taking longer to reach needy immigrants than some might have expected.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether President Trump acted legally by ending DACA, and many local immigrants are preparing in case the program is eliminated.

Community leaders in an isolated corner of the city are seeking a different justice model for young people that’s closer to home.

New York City courts still aren't allowing in-person hearings, unlike most of the state. But civil cases can now be filed electronically and many are related to the coronavirus.

Judge Rachel Kovner said she was disinclined to order the release of three plaintiffs with underlying medical issues, because she couldn't conclude there was no way of keeping them safe.

Plaintiffs accuse the Metropolitan Detention Center of not doing enough to stop the virus from spreading, but the government claims it followed CDC guidance.

After the city and state started releasing people from jail in March to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the NYPD says about 8 percent of those who were let out were arrested again.

A doctor who rides the A train from Harlem to Queens describes feeling more nervous riding the subway than volunteering at a COVID-19 testing site.

The doctor’s report was conducted as part of a lawsuit seeking the release of medically vulnerable inmates and improvements at the jail.

New York City has thousands of immigrants with healthcare degrees who aren't working in their chosen professions, even now.

Six-thousand rooms were already set aside for healthcare workers and homeless people. Now, those in overcrowded homes will also qualify if exposed to the coronavirus.

The Caribbean American community in New York and beyond is mourning broadcast legend Gil Bailey, who reportedly died on Monday. 

New York state data show black and Hispanic people are disproportionately dying from COVID-19.

A network of immigrant doctors is providing free drive-through tests in the Bronx and Queens, boroughs with high concentrations of immigrants, and where it’s hard to quarantine safely.

Judges must still report to the immigration court at Varick Street, even though it was closed Tuesday due to a case of coronavirus.

City agencies that normally monitor defendants pre-trial are hobbled by not meeting them in person. But they are supervising inmates released from Rikers Island because of the pandemic.

Foster agencies that work with migrant children say immigration courts should postpone most hearings given the public health emergency.

Criminal justice reform advocates say lawmakers shouldn’t change the bail reform law because it would put more people in jails, which could be breeding grounds for COVID-19.

As courts throughout New York canceled hearings to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, those who work in the immigration courts want a more complete shutdown.