Ex-correction officer Dionisio Rosario gets 90-day jail term for planting weapon in inmate's cell at Rikers Island.

A Crips member who let his younger brother languish on Rikers Island for a mistaken-identity murder he committed will spend ...

Reunification" program brings Rikers Island fathers and their families together in a private, supportive space that ...

While running to be New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city’s jail ...

A new watchdog report on Rikers Island details new medical and safety horrors besetting detainees at the sprawling jail ...

Long Island police officers were legally justified in using deadly force against an ex-Rikers Island jail guard during a welfare check, New York Attorney General Letitia James said. Bruce Boyd, 54, ...

The jail barge, officially called the Vernon C. Bain Center, was a relic of the crack cocaine era. It was notorious even ...

Twelve people died in city jails this year — three over a two-week period — already exceeding the number who died last year. Despite a decade under court monitoring during which five commissioners ...

The NYC Department of Correction and the Caribbean Women's Health Association are helping expectant mothers prepare for ...

A former correction officer at Rikers Island is facing years in prison after she was criminally charged with filing fraudulent documentation for medical ...

"The next mayor’s commitment to public safety shouldn’t be measured by how many people they jail, but by how they prevent ...

With the mayoral elections coming up, it's important that we seek out representatives who will do right by their constituents ...