A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time ...

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

City agencies on Thursday held a design workshop at Borough Hall for the Queens jail, one of four facilities slated to ...

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

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

With just three months remaining until the Democratic primary, six candidates vying to become the next mayor of New York City ...

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

Her death is the fourth death of a Rikers detainee so far this year, and follows that of Ariel Quidone, 20, last week and ...

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 ...

New York City should create two new positions to oversee the closure of Rikers Island, which is mandated to take place by ...