State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.

On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island" by David Campbell: "City Time" is an immersive ethnographic account of the social world ...

Hochul proposed changes to the state’s discovery laws that she said would speed up trials, keep violent people off the street, and hold repeat offenders accountable.

The move comes after THE CITY revealed that the company hand-picked to run food services overcharged detainees despite ...

A new report from the Legal Aid Society this week details the failures of local and state governments to decarcerate its ...

President Donald Trump is helping to return sanity to the gender conversation by recognizing biological reality in his ...

Harvey Weinstein, a once-famous Hollywood producer, is in big trouble. He’s been in jail for a while and thinks he might die ...

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport ...

In the first of a series of public workshops, architects and city agencies came to Borough Hall last Thursday to present ...

John Searles is the author of the forthcoming novel “Single Girls.” ...