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 ...

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

But proximity wasn’t the only issue. As for the Dakota Diner that just closed, Mike explained a longer arc of ownership and ...

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

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

The family of a 20-year-old man who died of appendicitis in Rikers Island custody last year is suing the city and the ...

A federal monitor says violence, deaths and officer misconduct persist at Rikers, as a judge moves closer to appointing a receiver.

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

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

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

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued an emergency executive order to overhaul the city's approach to solitary ...