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

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

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

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

A Long Island man was convicted of drug trafficking after a four-week jury trial and faces up to 30 years in prison for ...

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

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

Davien Reid, Sr. hit and stomped the boy, causing internal injuries and making the boy throw up — then forced him to lick his ...

In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can’t close by 2027, but the ...

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

The city will be legally barred from using Rikers after 2027, but the move-out can happen only if there are fewer than 5,000 ...