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 ...

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

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

The decision by a New York appeals court was a win for the City Council and a loss for Mayor Eric Adams, who had opposed the ...

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 ...

The City Council has filed a lawsuit to block Mayor Eric Adams from allowing federal immigration authorities to open an office on Rikers Island.

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

In August 2011, Mark Nunez typed out a lawsuit against the city, a year after a team of jail officers on Rikers Island beat him with a radio, dragged him down a hallway and stripped him naked. In an ...

A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.

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

() — "Border Czar” Tom Homan is vowing to "flood the zone" in New York City with ICE agents if mayoral candidate Zorhan ...

A judge granted a preliminary injunction against state prisons employing solitary confinement despite banning it last Wednesday, July 2.