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.

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

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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

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