After one inmate's death at the Essex County Correctional Facility and the vicious beating of another, officials vow a review of operations.

The federal watchdog overseeing efforts to reform Rikers Island slammed the Department of Correction Monday for “the absence ...

Women transferred to a state prison because of the crisis at Rikers Island have been threatened with violence and subject to beatings, strip searches and male officers’ ogling as they take showers, ...

The deteriorating conditions include increased inmate deaths, suicides and officers calling out sick en masse.

I am Jeff – but only to the polite, pencil-thin man stretching against a ginkgo tree inside the West 90th Street entrance to ...