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 ...

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

Aramis Furse, 32, was found unresponsive in his jail cell in December. A federal monitor says guards routinely fail to tour ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani late Monday renewed a long-running state of emergency on Rikers Island, signing an executive order he ...

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 ...

We will work closely with the federal monitor and the parties to put the City back on track to end solitary confinement as ...

Mayor Adams had fought the limits on solitary passed by the council. He vetoed the bill, then challenged the law itself in ...

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