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 ...

The Big Apple is “considering” a plan to house migrants at Rikers Island, sources told The Post Wednesday — as Mayor Eric Adams revealed nearly 50% of the city’s hotel rooms… ...

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

The Rikers Island person facility as seen from a departing flight from LaGuardia Airport on Dec. 10, 2022, in Queens, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

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 ...

If New York City closes the jail complex on Rikers Island, as it is slated to do in 2027, the “borough-based jails” erected in its place will leave the city with room for just 3,300 detainees.

New York City Council member Tiffany Cabán speaks at a press conference about Justice Mary Rosad’s ruling keeping a restraining order in place to keep ICE out of Rikers Island Friday, April 25 ...

Judge appoints remediation manager to run NYC's Rikers Island jail complex 03:02. After years of litigation, a federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report ...

As coronavirus cases began spiking in New York City in March, officials worried that the city’s notorious jail system on Rikers Island could become a powder keg inside the epicenter of the pandemic.

The former commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, Louis A. Molina, right, has been accused of covering up incidents on Rikers Island to make the jails seem safer than they ...

New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail complex, troubled by years of neglect, has spiraled into turmoil during the coronavirus pandemic. It's not just inmates and advocates saying that.