The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, causing injuries severe enough to require emergency surgery, according to ...

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia ...

A new documentary by Catherine Gund tracks the loss, painting over and recovery of Ringgold’s motivational composition “For ...

New York City’s Rikers Island jail spirals into chaos amid pandemic ... Sixteen-year-old Kalief Browder spent three years inside New York City's Rikers Island without being convicted of a ...

This summary is reviewed by TRD Staff. Former HFZ Capital exec Nir Meir was denied a significant bail reduction and will remain in Rikers Island jail unless he can pay $5 million cash or $7.5 ...

which was created for the notorious prison at New York’s Rikers Island, a facility that has has proven increasingly deadly as it has become disastrously overcrowded. Advocates for reform have ...

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport ...

Harvey Weinstein urged a New York judge on Wednesday to move up his April sexual assault retrial amid continued health issues and "medieval" conditions at New York City's Rikers Island.