A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...

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 ...

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

A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.

A state judge on Friday indefinitely blocked Mayor Eric Adams from letting federal immigration authorities open an office at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City, a priority for 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.

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 lawsuit claims ICE will use its office on Rikers “to fuel the [Trump] administration’s illegal mass deportation agenda, despite unequivocal New York City sanctuary laws that forbid the use ...

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

According to court documents, judges found that reestablishing an ICE office on Rikers Island would risk “damage to reputation, loss of goodwill, and brand tarnishment” to New York City due to ...

Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council announced a budget deal that includes bringing Sunday service to some library ...