Rikers Island is a 10-facility jail complex in New York City with capacity for up to 15,000 people — and has long been ...

The Big Apple’s borough-based jail program has nearly doubled in cost and remains years behind schedule ahead of the troubled ...

The death of Christopher Rodriguez is the first at the medical unit, which opened in April at Bellevue Hospital, for people ...

More than 100 inmates at the sprawling Rikers Island correctional facility gathered in a gymnasium at the complex's main intake center to watch Wednesday's semifinal match between England and ...

Eighteen Chinatown leaders are urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to reconsider locating a new jail in their densely populated ...

Rikers Island for the most part makes headlines for violence and disorder, so much so that New York City has moved to close the notorious jail complex. But on Tuesday, there was a palpable shift in ...

A woman accused of making fraudulent bank transactions in Connecticut was taken into custody at Rikers Island in New York and ...

Rikers Island is back in the headlines, but this time, it is because New York City is trying to move one step closer to shutting part of it down for good. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration ...

Towering over New York City's Chinatown, the new 335ft facility is set to be one of four borough-based facilities intended to ...