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 ...

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

A Rikers Island correction officer suffered bleeding on the brain and underwent emergency surgery after she was struck in the ...

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 ...

Five of the Democratic candidates in New York City’s mayoral race committed at a forum Thursday night to shut down a ...

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

Robert Ray, who allegedly punched Correction Officer Shamika Mitchell in the face on Rikers Island, is in jail for allegedly punching an MTA station agent, also a woman, in the face.

As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

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 ...

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 ...

A prolific Big Apple burglar has been set free dozens of times by sympathetic judges after committing numerous heists — including one break-in he committed the same day he was freed from Rikers ...

After an initial court appearance, the Rock Island mother accused of falsely reporting her daughter missing and triggering a community-wide search has been released from jail. 37-year-old Princess ...