Mayor Eric Adams says one of the four new community jails being built to replace Rikers will now be dedicated to inmates with ...

The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility and is the fourth fatality connected to City ...

An independent commission says the facility can still be shuttered despite a jail population that exceeds capacity of planned ...

It’s the fourth death of a Rikers detainee so far this year, following the death last week of 20-year-old Ariel Quidone, and ...

The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission appointed by the City Council ...

The population on Rikers Island has risen to 7,067 people this week, the highest total since 2019 — and almost twice as high ...

A 21-year-old being held on Rikers Island died over the weekend, marking the third detainee death seen at the troubled jail ...

Rikers Island will not shutter by the legally mandated deadline in 2027, according to a report released yesterday by the ...

A new report says delays in building four replacement jails mean the city will miss the legally mandated Rikers closure date.

The otherwise healthy young man who died at Elmhurst Hospital after just over a week on Rikers Island had a ruptured appendix ...

Adrienne Adams convened the commission in the somewhat more peaceful days of 2023, before she was challenging Eric Adams’ reelection. The 114-page report found, in short, that Rikers can’t close by ...

In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 ...