In May 2023, after a spike in deaths on Rikers Island, city jail officials suddenly stopped notifying the media shortly after ...

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 ...

Rikers Island has a decades-long reputation of spiraling dysfunction, brutality, and even death against those awaiting trial. The East River prison allowed Eyewitness News onto their grounds to ...

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 ...

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

() — "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 ...

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.