While a 29-year-old detainee with severe mental illness was on the brink of death in his Rikers Island cell last month, a medical staffer stood outside his cell door spraying air freshener, according ...

The New York City Department of Correction has regularly violated state law by illegally confining people in jail cells for ...

Rikers Island must be shut down by 2027, according to a city law enacted during the de Blasio Adminstration in 2019. However, ...

Even as Mayor Adams was inviting federal immigration officials onto Rikers Island, his administration failed to give Department of Correction staff basic training about city rules limiting disclosure ...

Two more people held in city jails died by suicide in 2025 and three more fatally overdosed on contraband narcotics, the New ...

The family of one of the nearly half dozen men to have died on Rikers Island this summer said in a court filing that the city ...

First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro “vehemently” disagreed with Rosado’s decision and remains confident in Adams’ ability to ...

A lawsuit claims that two areas in the New York City jail are designed so that detainees are effectively in solitary ...

Bobby says his chaotic stint in the notorious jail was filled with drugs, fights, and time in solitary confinement.

The city’s executive order to let U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reopen an office on Rikers Island is illegal, ...

The three uniformed staffers were suspended after Ardit Billa, 29, was found unconscious and unresponsive in a cell at the ...

A rap song written and performed by a Brooklyn man who was in jail at Rikers Island was wrongly used as evidence against him, ...