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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A Manhattan judge on Monday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from going around a municipal law banning solitary confinement in city prisons, including Rikers Island.

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