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

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

A state judge on Friday indefinitely blocked Mayor Eric Adams from letting federal immigration authorities open an office at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City, a priority for the ...

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

A Manhattan judge on Monday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from going around a municipal law banning solitary confinement in city prisons, including Rikers Island.

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

Health officials told Lucy’s owners that she would have to leave the city. After the family, the neighborhood and its ...

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 ...

According to court documents, judges found that reestablishing an ICE office on Rikers Island would risk “damage to reputation, loss of goodwill, and brand tarnishment” to New York City due to ...

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 ...

New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, left, is pictured at a press conference about Justice Mary Rosado’s ruling to maintain a restraining order in place to keep ICE off of Rikers Island ...

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