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

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.

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

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

The City Council wants to make it easier for thousands of Rikers Island inmates to vote by forcing jail officials to help ...

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

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

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

Punter, who has been at the nonprofit since 2008 and has led it for more than half that time, did not respond to requests for ...

STAMFORD, CT – Stamford detectives traveled to Rikers Island on Tuesday to arrest Kenneth Stewart, 25, of Brooklyn, New York, ...

After six days on Rikers Island on a civil contempt charge, Bedford-Stuyvesant homeowner Carmella Charrington left custody ...