Inside his cell on Rikers Island, Brian Croskey spends hours every day drawing elaborate artwork to free his mind.

Members of the city council and activists are pushing back on criticism of the plan to close Rikers Island— and build four smaller jails. The project is billions ...

The Democrat-controlled city council of New York City is suing Mayor Eric Adams for cooperating with the Trump administration by allowing ICE to conduct investigations at Rikers Island Prison.

A former corrections officer from Westchester County who admitted to smuggling drugs into Rikers Island in exchange for ...

Advocates who fought to remove federal authorities from Rikers said their presence at a city jail ... both inside and outside of DOC custody.” When ICE previously operated on Rikers Island ...