A panel created by Mayor Eric Adams wants to consider using an “open primary” system for elections in New York City. Here’s ...

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

In August 2011, Mark Nunez typed out a lawsuit against the city, a year after a team of jail officers on Rikers Island beat him with a radio, dragged him down a hallway and stripped him naked. In an ...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams criticizes rival Mamdani's affordability proposals, contrasting their backgrounds and socialist policies ...

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

() — "Border Czar” Tom Homan is vowing to "flood the zone" in New York City with ICE agents if mayoral candidate Zorhan ...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has endorsed a proposal to shut down Rikers Island jail complex that holds 7,500 inmates. The facility, notorious for violence at the hands of guards and among ...

As the city’s public defender landscape heads toward a potential crisis, the city this week announced plans to create a new ...

The wrongful-death lawsuit against the two men comes after the inmates were awarded a combined $367,500 from New York City as ...