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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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 population on Rikers Island has risen to ... In order to reduce the jail population, the report suggested that the city ...

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.