BY VERNESSA KINGSBURY Shelter Island is often described as sleepy — but those who live here know better. Our community has ...

New Mexico Indigenous communities are coming together to honor the life of a 14-year-old girl who was murdered in Arizona.

Netflix’s latest docuseries unpacks the decades-long search to find Long Island’s most prolific serial killer, and suspect Rex Heuermann.

Rikers Island will not shutter by the legally mandated deadline in 2027, according to a report released last week by the ...

A report by the Lippman Independent Commission challenges the city’s acquiescence toward failing to replace the existing dilapidated jails.

With New York City facing enormous challenges, this year’s mayoral candidates should think big and swing for the fences like ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time ...

The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility and is the fourth fatality connected to New ...

Her death is the fourth death of a Rikers detainee so far this year, and follows that of Ariel Quidone, 20, last week and ...

A woman held on Rikers Island died by possible suicide early Thursday, according to correction officials and sources. The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility ...