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

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

Programs that help the reentry of formerly incarcerated people say resources were strained even before the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld provisions of a 2023 law that expedites parole eligibility.

Two inmates in the Department of Correction’s custody died within an hour and a half of each other on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon. Inmates 37-year-old Benjamin Kelly and 56-year-old James ...

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But how can we tell which candidates are serious about safety, and which ones care more about stoking our fears than investing in what works? To start with, any candidate who is not committed to ...

Two men died Friday while in city Department of Correction custody, the agency said. The first incident occurred just before 3 p.m. at the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island, according to the ...

Two men have died in separate incidents while in custody of NYC Correction Department, the cause of their deaths is under investigation.

Had the documents reached Rikers Island, the plan presumably was to sell and/or trade them on the inside, for inmates to then either somehow ingest the tainted documents, or else scrape off the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A borough resident who tried to smuggle documents laced with narcotics onto Rikers Island — while already facing charges in the death of his baby — has decided to ...

NEW YORK -- A judge blocked New York City's mayor from letting federal immigration authorities reopen an office at the city's main jail, in part because of concerns the mayor invited them back in ...

A judge has blocked Mayor Eric Adams from letting federal immigration authorities reopen an office at Rikers Island.