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

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

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

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

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

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill still remembers one of the most difficult calls of his time as a public prosecutor. It was an elderly woman with a severely mentally ill adult child.

Tabitha Bundrick, 38, is accused of carrying out the series of attacks between April 2023 and February 2024, which ...

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A sex worker from hell killed three Johns when she fed them fentanyl to knock them out and rob them — leaving one victim dead with his pants at his knees, Manhattan prosecutors charged on Wednesday.

Galina Smirnova, 95, was jailed at Rikers Island on charges in connection with the death of a 89-year-old woman at a New York ...

Justin Wright of Bay Shore, New York, was arraigned on three felony counts in federal court. He is petitioning to be released ...

Tabitha Bundrick was arraigned on murder charges in a Manhattan court. Hers is one of several recent cases in which victims were drugged and then robbed, with fatal consequences.