New York City is set to bar ICE from operating at any of its 19 correction facilities — including Rikers Island. The Safer ...

An NYPD 911 operator was dispatching drugs to Rikers Island as she fielded emergency calls — conspiring with her ...

Hurstel — who is accused of killing and then decapitating his mother’s live-in boyfriend last year in the family’s West ...

Leadership of the notoriously problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex has officially fallen into federal hands with the anticipated appointment of an independent administrator, officials said ...

Socialist mayor appoints Stanley Richards as corrections commissioner, making him the first ex-con to hold the role as New ...

After more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail ...

Anti-ICE demonstrators were sprayed with tear gas as they clashed with police during an immigration protest in the US.

Stanley Richards, the new DOC commissioner, sat down with the Eagle to discuss the critical moment the city, the DOC and its jails are in, as well as his philosophical approach to leading the ...

Stanley Richards is taking over as correction commissioner at an inflection point for the city’s jails. Mayor Zohran Mamdani ...