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, ...

Brooklyn rapper 22Gz allegedly endured a brutal beating at Rikers Island following his arrest, though the reports remain ...

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

Maurene Comey, prosecutor in Epstein and Combs cases and daughter of former FBI director, sues after being fired B-2 crews ...

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 ...

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

Murder suspect Jimmy Avila’s brother is a Correction Department captain who was working in the jail unit where Avila was being held when he died.

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

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