New York City’s $16 billion plan to close Rikers Island involves four smaller facilities that tout a more humane vision of carceral buildings. Some activists think that’s an oxymoron.

Last month, a federal monitor overseeing the city’s Department of Correction said the agency remains mired in the same dysfunction that prompted a court’s intervention nearly a decade ago. “The reform ...

Stanley Richards, the new DOC commissioner, sat down with the Eagle to discuss the critical moment the city, the DOC and its ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Department of Correction Commissioner Stanely Richards, the first formerly incarcerated person in the role, sits down with PIX11 to discuss pushing forward on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ...

Stanley Richards came recommended by others to lead the city's Department of Corrections (DOC). He was once an inmate himself.

As a federal judge considers taking Rikers Island out of the city’s control and handing it to a court-appointed receiver, the Brooklyn Eagle is looking back at the history of the city’s troubled jail ...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called to rebuild the Rikers Island jail complex, reversing his previous position to go forward with closing it entirely. Cuomo is running for mayor of New York City ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former union boss who was once thought of as the king of New York City's jails may be headed to federal prison after a jury convicted him of corruption charges Wednesday. The ...

(CNN) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday if elected mayor he would cancel the closure of Rikers Island – New York City’s infamous jail complex – in favor of a plan to demolish and ...

An NYPD 911 operator was dispatching drugs to Rikers Island as she fielded emergency calls — conspiring with her ...