Almost a decade ago, plans were made to shut down Rikers Island for good. Here's the deadline the city was given to shut its ...

The city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed ...

City lawyers have agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to settle lawsuits brought by the families of two men who died from ...

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

As New York City’s first ever “close Rikers czar,” it’s Dana Kaplan’s job to get the notorious jails complex shut down ASAP.

Rikers Island, one of the most notable jails in the United States, has been slated to close for almost a decade. But with a ...

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

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 ...

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.

Houlder and Hawkins are set to return to Bronx court on July 1. The pretrial phase could surface more of the surveillance ...

“These defendants are accused of using pepper spray on inmates in violation of department guidelines,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement. “To cover up these alleged violations, ...

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