The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

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

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

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

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

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

Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

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

After NYC Department of Correction (DOC) confirmed on Saturday, June 21, that two additional people have died on or in ...