A Rikers Island officer, an inmate, and the inmate's wife are charged with smuggling contraband into the jail, including ...

Mayor Mamdani is now running the city, but soon he and the Department of Correction will not be running Rikers Island, the ...

Unlike his two predecessors, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has no hope of avoiding a hard time with the Rikers Island jails: He faces ...

The report lands at what the monitor describes as a “critical and uncertain” moment for the jail and Department of Correction ...

Violence on Rikers Island remains pervasive as the city waits for a federal judge to appoint a receiver to take over the ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani directed city agencies to make plans to comply with rules governing health and safety at the facilities, ...

Aramis Furse, 32, was found unresponsive in his jail cell in December. A federal monitor says guards routinely fail to tour ...

DOC Officer Steven Davis was indicted for smuggling marijuana and tobacco into a Rikers Island jail, in addition to tools giving inmates access to vents, light fixtures and other likely hiding ...

This year, seven large illuminated menorahs and five inflatable menorahs stood across Rikers Island, visible as you approach ...

The family of a 20-year-old man who died of appendicitis in Rikers Island custody last year is suing the city and the ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani put New York City’s troubled jail system on the clock to end solitary confinement —  issuing yet another executive order to unravel his predecessor’s actions. Mamdani signed an ...

The defendant’s sister reportedly arrived home from school on the day of the slaying to find the victim's body in the bathtub ...