A former Rikers Island inmate compared his hellish experience at the city jail to Guantanamo Bay in a new lawsuit, claiming that he spent eight hours on a filthy, overcrowded bus with no access to ...

Welcome to “Horror Island” — where New York City inmates are confined in their own filth, staff doesn’t show up to work and one detainee tries to hang himself in full view of state ...

The march will begin in Astoria at Steinway Street and 30th Avenue at 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 24. New Yorkers will march to a rally at the foot of the Rikers Island bridge at 19th Avenue and ...

Hazen Street and 19th Avenue illustrated the widening divide in the fight to address the crisis on Rikers Island and beyond. Parole officers are at odds with inmate advocates over the law that ...

The city’s plan to close Rikers Island and replace its myriad detention ... already the site of the Brooklyn House of Detention; 80 Centre Street, a nine-story government building that could ...

When Quinsey Simpson relieved a colleague at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex in early March, he had no idea his fellow correction officer was infected with the coronavirus.

But the violence and degradation of the Rikers Island jail and the wave of mentally ill street homeless harming the innocent can and should be linked. Whether the Rikers jail is replaced by ...

As part of plans to shutter Rikers Island by 2027, the de Blasio administration initially sought to erect a jail at 80 Centre Street ... would each have some 1,500 beds, for a total of 6,000 ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Public defenders are now taking aim at judges and district attorneys who continue to send more people to Rikers Island ... Still, 1,500 have been at the floating jail ...

New York City unveiled an ambitious plan on Wednesday to replace the notorious Rikers Island jail complex with ... in 1930 into a tower for up to 1,500 inmates. Mayor Bill de Blasio and other ...