The attorney of a jails chaplain charged with trying to smuggle three razor blades and a pair of scissors into a lockup said Wednesday there's "absolutely no reason to believe" his client knew the items were in his bag. Imam Zul-Qarnain Abdu-Shahid, 58, of Staten ...

A senior New York prisons official has stepped down following revelations that a Jewish fraudster held a lavish jailhouse bar mitzvah for his son, a prison spokesman Tuesday. Spokesman Stephen Morello told AFP that Peter Curcio, who is chief of security in the system, had tendered his resignation. This followed embarrassing reports by the New York Post that convicted fraudster ...