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

Federal immigration officials had been barred from the New York City jail complex. The mayor says they can return, but only ...

Rikers Island is more than a place on the New York City map. It’s also an idea about how the city deals with crime and dispenses punishment. And over the past year – not for the first time in recent ...

The Adams administration unloaded on a Brooklyn lawmaker who championed the closure of Rikers Island then complained about the construction of a new borough-based jail in his own district.

She's teaching meditation to inmates and the warders looking after them. "Rikers Island is a violent, harsh, unrelentingly difficult environment for anyone who's incarcerated there," Joh tells ABC ...

No officers were injured in the ordeal, Catalina said. Boyd was a retired New York City Department of Corrections officer who worked at Rikers Island, according to Suffolk County officials. He was ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New York’s plan to release some inmates early amid an ongoing staffing shortage at state prisons has drawn the ire of one of Staten Island’s lawmakers. On Wednesday ...

In the early 1800s, Richard Riker, a descendant of the family who owned Rikers Island, participated in a kidnapping ring for decades that sent African Americans into slavery. Riker used his power ...

In March, Adams signed an order allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel access to the Rikers Island jail complex, a significant policy shift. Trump's push to quash the charges ...

A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in city custody in fewer than two months. Dashawn Jenkins, 27, succumbed ...

The New York City Department of Correction confirms Dashawn Jenkins, 27, died while in custody Monday night, just one day after his birthday. Officials say staff noticed he was visibly ill while ...