Trump made his remarks during a meeting with NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, who has been coordinating efforts to send ...

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A Correction officer found the man – whose name has not been released pending family notification – lying on the floor of a ...

A former Rikers Island guard was convicted of felony charges after prosecutors say he planted a weapon inside the cell of a ...

The man, who was identified late Tuesday as Edwin Quispe, 33, was found unresponsive in a bathroom at the Eric M. Taylor ...

Rikers Island inmates at the East River jail recently celebrated walking across the stage, beating the odds of an uncertain future behind bars. These 63 Rikers high school graduates exchanged their ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...

A Venezuelan migrant who begged a judge to send him to Rikers Island to avoid being taken into custody to waiting immigration agents has been turned over to the feds.

For years, the City Council and the mayor have been fighting over restricting solitary confinement on Rikers Island. The council banned the practice in 2024, and the mayor used executive orders to ...

An inmate transport van struck a utility pole in Sparta, Georgia, injuring eight inmates and two deputies, troopers said. The driver acknowledged falling asleep.

A state Supreme Court judge has ruled Mayor Adams broke the law when he refused to implement parts of a law restricting solitary confinement in jails like Rikers Island (inset).