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

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

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

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

Having long fought against the appointment of an independent monitor to reform Rikers Island, the Adams administration has presented a plan for a different entity to take charge of the troubled jails ...

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 ...

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

Adams, a former NYPD captain who’s made public safety the cornerstone of his policy agenda, calls it a Public Safety Academy.

But this is not the case anymore. In fact, the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey announced in late 2024 that LaGuardia ...

Hochul’s proposal — which she argues would help stop criminal cases from being dismissed over “technicalities” — faces an ...