The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

De Blasio released a roadmap for the jail complex’s closure ... On Aug. 22, Donny Ubiera died in his cell on Rikers Island, becoming the eighth person to die in DOC custody this year. The department ...

A former assistant chief at New York's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office heralded Mayor Eric Adams' vow to ...

As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.

New York City's Democratic Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday he will issue an executive order that will allow federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into Rikers Island to assist ...

That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... await being shipped to a federal prison for long stretches, or are short-timers ...

Harvey Weinstein begged to go on trial earlier than planned, saying he isn't sure he will survive long enough in the "hell ...

New York’s Department of Corrections has opened a wellness center for guards on Rikers ... jail and the meditation room helps to calm him both after his two-hour commute from Long Island ...

Adams said he would issue executive orders to reestablish a federal immigration presence at the jail complex – with a new mandate to work with the feds on investigations targeting migrant criminals ...