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 ...

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

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

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

Luis Bernier has languished on Rikers Island since March 12 because he can’t get transferred to prison due to the ripples ...

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

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

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

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

Prosecutors said the defendant — listed in jail records at 5-feet-8 inches-tall and weighing 180 pounds — grabbed a kitchen ...