Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.

Stanley Richards is taking over as correction commissioner at an inflection point for the city’s jails. Mayor Zohran Mamdani ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

Rikers Island's new remediation manager, who was named on Tuesday, will have authority even beyond that of the city’s correction commissioner to push forward reforms — in an appointment that marks one ...

Jail watchdogs found that correctional officers and medical staff on Rikers Island abandoned their posts and failed to check ...

The NYC Council overrode Mayor Adams’ veto to bar ICE from operating on Rikers Island, strengthening the city’s sanctuary laws.

More than two years after city jail officials cut off nonprofit-led social services at Rikers Island, several organizations ...

Mayor Mamdani is now running the city, but soon he and the Department of Correction will not be running Rikers Island, the troubled jail, as Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain is due to ...

A federal judge chose an ex-CIA officer and Vermont corrections commissioner to lead operations at the troubled Rikers Island ...

Socialist mayor appoints Stanley Richards as corrections commissioner, making him the first ex-con to hold the role as New York City pushes reforms.

After finding the city in contempt of 18 court orders to reduce violence and the use of excessive force on Rikers Island in ...

Leadership of the notoriously problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex has officially fallen into federal hands with the anticipated appointment of an independent administrator, officials said ...