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

Late last month, city Correction Department officials asked the jail oversight board to expand bed capacity in certain Rikers ...

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

New York City spends more than $2.8 billion a year to prop up Rikers — a failing, decrepit jail complex that delivers none of ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

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

A Manhattan judge on Monday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from going around a municipal law banning solitary confinement in city prisons, including Rikers Island.

Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Curtis Sliwa ran unopposed and won the Republican primary for New York City mayor for the second consecutive election cycle.

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.