A Rikers Island officer, an inmate, and the inmate's wife are charged with smuggling contraband into the jail, including ...

Unlike his two predecessors, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has no hope of avoiding a hard time with the Rikers Island jails: He faces ...

Mayor Mamdani is now running the city, but soon he and the Department of Correction will not be running Rikers Island, the ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani late Monday renewed a long-running state of emergency on Rikers Island, signing an executive order he acknowledged would prolong a controversial legal workaround used by his ...

The report lands at what the monitor describes as a “critical and uncertain” moment for the jail and Department of Correction ...

A Department of Corrections officer was indicted Wednesday for smuggling marijuana and tobacco into a Rikers Island jail, in ...

Aramis Furse, 32, was found unresponsive in his jail cell in December. A federal monitor says guards routinely fail to tour ...

The family of a 20-year-old man who died of appendicitis in Rikers Island custody last year is suing the city and the ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani put New York City’s troubled jail system on the clock to end solitary confinement — issuing yet another executive order to unravel his predecessor’s actions. Mamdani signed an ...

Inmate Shemar Hassani-Shaw was indicted for slashing a Rikers Island officer's face last December. Charges include Attempted ...

This year, seven large illuminated menorahs and five inflatable menorahs stood across Rikers Island, visible as you approach ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they ...