Stanley Richards, the new DOC commissioner, sat down with the Eagle to discuss the critical moment the city, the DOC and its ...

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 ...

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

After more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail ...

Stanley Richards is taking over as correction commissioner at an inflection point for the city’s jails. Mayor Zohran Mamdani ...

Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.

In October 2024, a Rikers Island social worker came forward with a bombshell accusation: officers were routinely isolating ...

An NYPD 911 operator was helping to dispatch drugs to Rikers Island as she fielded emergency calls — conspiring with her convicted-killer boyfriend and two other suspected murderers to sneak ...

Hurstel — who is accused of killing and then decapitating his mother’s live-in boyfriend last year in the family’s West ...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday if elected mayor he would cancel the closure of Rikers Island – New York City’s infamous jail complex – in favor of a plan to demolish and rebuild on ...

Stanley Richards came recommended by others to lead the city's Department of Corrections (DOC). He was once an inmate himself.