The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and determination of young detainees, awaiting their cases to be adjudicated by the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

In May 2023, after a spike in deaths on Rikers Island, city jail officials suddenly stopped notifying the media shortly after ...

The chief medical officer for Rikers Island says the city can’t safely manage the jail, asks the Council to request state or federal assistance.

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...

Veo Kelly has been held without bail on Rikers Island awaiting trial for attacking Samyia and Sanyia Spain, 19.

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