The young detainee who appears to have died of a ruptured appendix and infection began showing serious medical issues in the ...
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With just three months remaining until the Democratic primary, six candidates vying to become the next mayor of New York City ...
City agencies on Thursday held a design workshop at Borough Hall for the Queens jail, one of four facilities slated to ...
Rikers Island will not shutter by the legally mandated deadline in 2027, according to a report released last week by the ...
A report by the Lippman Independent Commission challenges the city’s acquiescence toward failing to replace the existing dilapidated jails.
With New York City facing enormous challenges, this year’s mayoral candidates should think big and swing for the fences like ...
By Tracy Turner In the shadowy lanes of global intelligence, wars are no longer fought with bullets and bombs but with ...
Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...
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 ...
Based on the Constitution’s separation of powers U.S. Distict Judge Dale Ho of the Southern District of New York should deny the Justice Department's motion to drop its own case against New York City ...
The new jail under construction in Downtown Brooklyn is the first of four the City wants to build to replace the Rikers Island jail complex.