The Queens public defender arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-laced papers to a Rikers Island inmate has been ...

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

We explore the undeniable and devastating impact of incarceration on mental health through a young man’s self-described ...

The beleaguered jail has been under the supervision of a federal monitor since 2015 because of pervasive problems.

Two prisoners died just over an hour apart Friday — one at Rikers Island, and one after a medical emergency on a bus en route ...

A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

The man who allegedly pepper sprayed a baby and her mother on the subway was still locked up on Rikers Island as of Monday afternoon, according to online records.Edward Vargas, ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

Even in a place like Rikers Island, light can break through. This year’s pre-Shavuos celebration transformed the prison into ...