New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a new Close Rikers czar charged with leading efforts to shutter the city's ...

For decades, the unfixable Rikers Island has hurt New Yorkers — those inside the massive complex’s walls and all of us beyond ...

Powers’ first visit to Rikers Island came shortly after her election in 2021, when the jails were in an acute state of crisis ...

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

New York City’s new correction commissioner is the first formerly incarcerated person to oversee the city’s jails.

Gov. Dan McKee announced on Friday that Department of Corrections Director Wayne Salisbury is leaving the department.

The final beam was placed Wednesday atop the $3 billion Brooklyn borough-based jail, which will one day be the first facility ...

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 New York jail complex uses video games as part of its strategy to reduce violence with programming for good behavior.

The long-delayed opening of the 104-bed unit comes with the decommissioning of the North Infirmary Command, the jail complex’s original hospital.

Andrew Cuomo grabbed the spotlight in the New York City mayor's race on Wednesday by calling for the scrapping of the city's plan to close Rikers Island. The former governor suggested building a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK — A suspected drug trafficker held on Rikers Island died in custody early Sunday, marking the second death in the city ...