The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and ...

A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...

One of the ironies of Nunez’s story, and something that still rankles him, is he received just $75,000 in a settlement in ...

An apartment on Corson Avenue, near Jersey Street, alleged to be the crew’s base of drug operations was raided by police.

Late last month, city Correction Department officials asked the jail oversight board to expand bed capacity in certain Rikers ...

A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

() — "Border Czar” Tom Homan is vowing to "flood the zone" in New York City with ICE agents if mayoral candidate Zorhan ...

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

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in ...

A judge ruled that NYC Mayor Adams improperly used emergency powers to block a ban on solitary confinement in city jails, ...