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

Justice has been served for a Guyanese-born Brooklyn man who has finally been exonerated for a murder he has always insisted ...

Brian Kendall has insisted he and a few friends were simply playing video games inside a Flatbush game room after school when ...

Brian Kendall was 17 when police accused him of a homicide he insisted he didn’t commit. A Brooklyn DA unit now says he’s ...

Brian Koehn, a Marine Corps veteran and former warden, is leading a movement to transform the criminal justice system with ...

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

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

The chief medical officer for Rikers Island says the city can’t safely manage the jail, asks the Council to request state or federal assistance.

NEW YORK — As Rikers Island continues to be in turmoil, lawyers are preparing to ask a federal judge to consider emergency relief to alleviate conditions on the island. Emergency relief could ...

Located in Phoenix, Towers Jail is one of the only vertical jails in the U.S. Discover how space, population growth, and policy shaped this unusual correctional structure.