A 27-year-old man held on Rikers Island died Monday night, bringing the total number of jail deaths there to five in 2025. According to the City Department of Correction account, staffers saw that ...

Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other New York City lockups that ...

The death was the fifth since Feb. 19, when Ramel Powell died at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. That total matches the ...

Ramel Powell, 38, and Sonia Reyes, 55, both died on Rikers Island earlier this year. Terrence Moore, 55, died in Department ...

The young detainee who appears to have died of a ruptured appendix and infection began showing serious medical issues in the ...

The Legal Aid Society released a report on the effects of the 22-day strike by correction officers on incarcerated people.

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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 ...

The Legal Aid Society released a report on the effects of the 22-day strike by correction officers at prison facilities run ...

Living conditions for people held on immigration charges are the source of controversy for a detention center in Tacoma, and ...