The City Council was wrong to write a law purporting to ban solitary confinement on Rikers Island, as it would significantly ...

A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...

The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and determination of young detainees, awaiting their cases to be adjudicated by the ...

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

Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has seized control of the facility from New York City and placed it under ...

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 ...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams criticizes rival Mamdani's affordability proposals, contrasting their backgrounds and socialist policies ...

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

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

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

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

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