The incident occurred in April 2023 when members of the Department of Correction Emergency Services Unit were conducting a contraband search.

A Crips member who let his younger brother languish on Rikers Island for a mistaken-identity murder he committed will spend ...

Ex-correction officer Dionisio Rosario gets 90-day jail term for planting weapon in inmate's cell at Rikers Island.

A new watchdog report on Rikers Island details new medical and safety horrors besetting detainees at the sprawling jail ...

New data from the city’s Department of Correction shows the Adams administration began completing more investigations into detainees’ sexual assault and abuse allegations after more than 700 women ...

While running to be New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city’s jail ...

Twelve people died in city jails this year — three over a two-week period — already exceeding the number who died last year. Despite a decade under court monitoring during which five commissioners ...

A former correction officer at Rikers Island is facing years in prison after she was criminally charged with filing fraudulent documentation for medical ...

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 ...

The city’s notorious jail barge was cut from its shores last week and sent south to be turned into scrap metal, putting an ...