Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

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

New York City spends more than $2.8 billion a year to prop up Rikers — a failing, decrepit jail complex that delivers none of ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

The wrongful-death lawsuit against the two men comes after the inmates were awarded a combined $367,500 from New York City as ...

The lawsuit claims ICE will use its office on Rikers “to fuel the [Trump] administration’s illegal mass deportation agenda, despite unequivocal New York City sanctuary laws that forbid the use ...

Mayor Eric Adams didn’t follow the proper procedures when he declared a state of emergency and blocked a local law ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

Curtis Sliwa ran unopposed and won the Republican primary for New York City mayor for the second consecutive election cycle.

A judge ruled that NYC Mayor Adams improperly used emergency powers to block a ban on solitary confinement in city jails, ...

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