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

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

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

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

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

Bronx artist Thunder Bklu is officially pivoting. In a deeply personal new video, the rapper addressed his long absence from ...

Queens may no longer be in possession of the City Council speaker’s office, but several members of Queens’ Council delegation ...

The “racist ideology of diversity, equity and inclusion” spurred a US military “recruitment crisis” by driving away thousands ...

He was a good person who looked out for everyone,” victim Aaron Carpenter’s stepsister told the Daily News. “He never really ...

Nearly six years after the city’s watchdog warned that the Department of Correction’s paper logbooks were so unreliable they ...

In his November victory speech, New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, observed that “a great New Yorker”—his vanquished opponent’s father, Mario Cuomo—“once said that while you campaign in poetry ...

Rikers Island is in the spotlight after a guard's suspension following a detainee's death and a lawsuit over another ...