Suffolk County Correctional Facility

Plaintiffs complained of defective plumbing, overflowing sewage, chronic overcrowding, poor water, food and air quality, rodent and insect infestation, pervasive mold and rust, and freezing temperatures. 

A Suffolk County correction officer has been arrested for allegedly forcing an inmate in the Riverside jail to perform oral sex, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney announced today.

A former inmate at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverside is suing the county after he was brutally beaten by correction officers last year, causing severe physical injuries that damaged his organs and required him to receive emergency surgery, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed last week.

An allegedly drunk driver on the grounds of the Riverhead Correctional Facility was arrested last night for driving while intoxicated and possession of a “ghost gun,” the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office said this morning.

A chaplain at the Suffolk County jail for 26 years, Sister Michelle Bremer counsels, teaches and restores trust in the hearts of the incarcerated.

New community-based programs focused on rehabilitation and treatment for nonviolent offenders have helped reduce Suffolk's inmate population so much that the state has approved at least a three-year delay on the construction of a planned 250-bed expansion at the minimum security jail in Yaphank.

Hundreds of Latino gang members are inmates at county jail, drawing other gang members to Riverhead, which is a base for MS-13 in Suffolk, according to Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.

Possessed by a desire to make sure the world understands, never forgets and never repeats the horrors of the Holocaust, Marion Blumenthal Lazan, a 79-year-old German-born Jew who spent most of her childhood in refugee camps and the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has traveled all over the world to share her story.