Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

She’s not dashing to get out of Rikers. Accused serial dine-and-dash diva Pei Chung on Wednesday refused to leave her jail ...

In October 2024, a Rikers Island social worker came forward with a bombshell accusation: officers were routinely isolating ...

More than two years after city jail officials cut off nonprofit-led social services at Rikers Island, several organizations ...

Rikers Island's new remediation manager, who was named on Tuesday, will have authority even beyond that of the city’s correction commissioner to push forward reforms — in an appointment that marks one ...

Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.

After finding the city in contempt of 18 court orders to reduce violence and the use of excessive force on Rikers Island in ...

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 ...

A federal judge chose an ex-CIA officer and Vermont corrections commissioner to lead operations at the troubled Rikers Island ...

Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain handing control of Rikers Island to her appointee Nicholas Deml must be respected by Mayor Mamdani and his Department of Correction. Deml, backed up by ...

The notoriously violent Rikers is supposed to close in 2027 and be replaced with four smaller jails dispersed across the city ...

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 ...