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

The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and determination of young detainees, awaiting their cases to be adjudicated by the ...

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

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

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 ...

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.