In May 2023, after a spike in deaths on Rikers Island, city jail officials suddenly stopped notifying the media shortly after ...

The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and ...

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

Rikers Island has a decades-long reputation of a stem of spiraling dysfunction, brutality, and even death against those awaiting trial. The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 ...

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

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

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

In this one-on-one, Mastro discusses the city's appeal over rental aid laws, efforts to fine protesters who wear masks, his oversight of antisemitism and immigrant legal aid offices, and his push for ...

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

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

One of the ironies of Nunez’s story, and something that still rankles him, is he received just $75,000 in a settlement in ...

Prosecutors said the defendant — listed in jail records at 5-feet-8 inches-tall and weighing 180 pounds — grabbed a kitchen ...