The hours leading up to the man’s death involved a slew of violations of jail policy, according to the city Board of Correction report.

The City Council wants to make it easier for thousands of Rikers Island inmates to vote by forcing jail officials to help ...

Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubled down on an impossible promise. In October 2019, the City Council passed a law that ...

Housing court cases in New York rarely end with a ride to Rikers Island, but that is exactly what happened to Harlem ...

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has spent much of the last few years in a Rikers Island cell.

A Department of Correction captain and 10 correction officers who worked at the Donald J. Cranston Judicial Center on Rikers ...

Twin Brothers Sentenced in Sunset Park Lobby Killing Linked to Rikers Island Gang Plot BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A 21-year-old man’s ...

Punter, who has been at the nonprofit since 2008 and has led it for more than half that time, did not respond to requests for ...

The long-delayed opening of the 104-bed unit comes with the decommissioning of the North Infirmary Command, the jail ...

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced the opening of a first-of-its-kind outposted therapeutic housing unit as a ...

Advocates are urging the Mamdani administration to transfer a long-vacant Rikers Island jail facility out of Department of Correction control, saying the city must revive a jail decommissioning ...

A prominent advocate in the fight against deed theft is now behind bars on Rikers Island, prompting outrage from supporters ...