This year, seven large illuminated menorahs and five inflatable menorahs stood across Rikers Island, visible as you approach ...

Unlike his two predecessors, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has no hope of avoiding a hard time with the Rikers Island jails.

Mayor Mamdani is now running the city, but soon he and the Department of Correction will not be running Rikers Island, the ...

A Rikers Island officer, an inmate, and the inmate's wife are charged with smuggling contraband into the jail, including ...

A Department of Corrections officer was indicted Wednesday for smuggling marijuana and tobacco into a Rikers Island jail, in ...

The report lands at what the monitor describes as a “critical and uncertain” moment for the jail and Department of Correction ...

Violence on Rikers Island remains pervasive as the city waits for a federal judge to appoint a receiver to take over the ...

When a federal judge announced last May that she would appoint an independent “remediation manager” to impose long-delayed ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they ...

Inmate Shemar Hassani-Shaw was indicted for slashing a Rikers Island officer's face last December. Charges include Attempted ...

A men's boutique, "Dressed for the Part," has been launched at Rikers Island prison that will help prisoners with business ...

The family of a 20-year-old man who died of appendicitis in Rikers Island custody last year is suing the city and the ...