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

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

An apartment on Corson Avenue, near Jersey Street, alleged to be the crew’s base of drug operations was raided by police.

A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.

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 state judge on Friday indefinitely blocked Mayor Eric Adams from letting federal immigration authorities open an office at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City, a priority for the ...

The decision by a New York appeals court was a win for the City Council and a loss for Mayor Eric Adams, who had opposed the ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Mayor Eric Adams didn’t follow the proper procedures when he declared a state of emergency and blocked a local law ...