The beleaguered jail has been under the supervision of a federal monitor since 2015 because of pervasive problems.

A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

Inside a shuttered Rikers Island jail, city investigators in November 2020 discovered a secret lounge with leather couches and a giant TV screen, caches of Correction Department equipment ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

The feds are fed up after decades of City Hall’s failure to improve the deteriorating Rikers Island jail. Mayor Eric Adams has to give it up, he if wants to save lives.

Mayor Eric Adams exceeded his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a new law banning solitary confinement in ...

A jail on Rikers Island. Max Touhey. Browder’s death galvanized support for ending the city’s use of solitary confinement on teenagers and his family joined activists in calling for the island ...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to close the city's notorious Rikers Island jail. But even he acknowledges that the process will not be quick or easy. "It will take many years," de Blasio said ...

The city bus is one of the few ways in or out of New York's Rikers Island jail. Conditions there have been declared a crisis. Families say the only way to check on their loved ones is in person.

A general view shows the Rikers Island jail complex in the East River of New York, from Queens, on January 13, 2022, with a Passover seder and matzah illustration.