Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

We explore the undeniable and devastating impact of incarceration on mental health through a young man’s self-described descent into madness. A decade later, Victor Abraham says he is still paying for ...

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

The Correction Department said Bernardo Caceres’s papers tested positive for THC, a cannabinoid. Then officials tested the ...

The Queens public defender arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-laced papers to a Rikers Island inmate has been ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Peter Braunstein, 61, has been inside an upstate New York prison since 2007, following his conviction on kidnapping, sexual ...

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

Even in a place like Rikers Island, light can break through. This year’s pre-Shavuos celebration transformed the prison into ...

The 56-year-old detainee had a “medical emergency” on the bus headed to Rikers at around 4:30 p.m. Friday, and was pronounced dead about 20 minutes later. Officials said he was in the hospital ...

Five inmates have died inside Rikers since the start of the year. No other details were released. * Get Eyewitness News Delivered * Follow us on YouTube * More local news * Send us a news tip ...