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.

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

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

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 ...

The population on Rikers Island has risen to 7,067 people this week, the highest total since 2019 — and almost twice as high ...

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

In April, the city settled a lawsuit brought by Feliciano’s family and agreed to pay $28 million — one of the largest settlements in history for a jail incident — for damages and the ongoing ...

(Photo: AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba) JAKARTA: A remote island prison for those convicted of corruption charges. That was the threat volleyed by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday (Mar 13 ...

AN island off the coast of Naples is getting a huge upgrade. The former prison island of Santo Stefano is being transformed into a bar, hotel and open-air museum. The latest plans are to link the ...