She’s not dashing to get out of Rikers. Accused serial dine-and-dash diva Pei Chung on Wednesday refused to leave her jail ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Unlike his two predecessors, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has no hope of avoiding a hard time with the Rikers Island jails: He faces dual crises with the implosion of the de Blasio “replacement” plan and the ...

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

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

The judge named Nicholas Deml to oversee the city jail, a change that will test Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ability to work with ...

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 ...