Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they ...

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

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

During a heated Zoom meeting Thursday evening, city officials told Chinatown residents that construction on a new jail in ...

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

A Department of Corrections officer was indicted Wednesday for smuggling marijuana and tobacco into a Rikers Island jail, in ...

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

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

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued an emergency executive order to overhaul the city's approach to solitary ...

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

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

We will work closely with the federal monitor and the parties to put the City back on track to end solitary confinement as soon as possible,” Mamdani said.