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 ...

A report by the Lippman Independent Commission challenges the city’s acquiescence toward failing to replace the existing dilapidated jails.

In June 2015, a young Black man named Kalief Browder died by suicide. He was just 22 years old. His story is one we cannot forget or allow to happen again.

With New York City facing enormous challenges, this year’s mayoral candidates should think big and swing for the fences like ...

Police and Prisons Belong in Museums North America, What to do, Why End War, World By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March ...

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 ...

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.

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