New York City has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to settle lawsuits brought by the families of two men who died of ...

Investigations into alleged abuses by Rikers Island officers will no longer be handled by the Department of Correction, ...

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 ...

Mayor Mamdani officially named Dana Kaplan the inaugural Close Rikers czar on April 28. She has spent a decade working to close the jail.

Donny Ruben Ubiera’s estate received $2.4 million and Jose Mejia Martinez’s estate received $2.7 million in settlement money.

The city has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to the families of two men who died on Rikers Island of methadone overdoses, ...

News 12's Heather Fordham sits down with David Estrada, the executive director of the Sunset Park Business Improvement ...

New York City has paid more than $5 million over the past few weeks to settle two suits alleging the city is responsible for ...

For decades, the unfixable Rikers Island has hurt New Yorkers — those inside the massive complex’s walls and all of us beyond them. Under city law, the Mamdani administration must produce a plan to ...

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has spent much of the last few years in a Rikers Island cell.

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