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.

If a federal judge follows through with her threat to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island, she should make sure ...

The officials, Russell Hott and Peter Berg, were recently cut from ICE’s enforcement division amid increasing pressure from the Trump administration to ramp up the number of illegal migrant ...

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 ...

New York’s Department of Corrections has opened a wellness center for guards on Rikers ... jail and the meditation room helps to calm him both after his two-hour commute from Long Island ...

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 ...