The Latest Breaking News from Louis Molina

No longer will the troubled jail system publicly report when somebody dies in custody.

The head of the New York City Correction Department’s Investigation Division — a key unit which investigates a wide range of staff misconduct — has stepped down over questions about his handling of probes into excessive force cases, the Daily News has learned.

NEW YORK — An exhaustive report on 10 of the 16 deaths in 2021 in city jails details a range of staffing problems, systemic failures and mismanagement by jail staff that contributed to the fatalities.

NEW YORK — The New York City Correction Department last year found a program that worked to reduce violence in some units in its jail for younger detainees — but then the agency fired the initiative’s leader and now its future seems very much in flux.

NEW YORK — City jail stabbings and slashings are on an alarming rise even as the numbers of detainees sinks, city statistics show.

A once-prominent neurologist convicted last month of sexually abusing patients killed himself Monday at a New York City jail while awaiting sentencing in that case and a trial on federal charges alleging still more abuse, two people familiar with the matter said

NEW YORK — A Department of Correction officer was fired Monday after a Rikers Island inmate died of a suspected overdose.