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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

NYC Mayor Eric Adams says one of the new jails being built to replace Rikers will now be dedicated to inmates with mental ...

An independent commission says the facility can still be shuttered despite a jail population that exceeds the capacity of ...

Adams expressed doubt that Rikers Island could close by the 2027 deadline set during ... The jails in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens will each have 1,040 beds, bringing the total capacity ...

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 ...