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

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

In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can’t close by 2027, but the ...

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

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

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

A man held on Rikers Island died Monday night, bringing the total number of jail deaths to five in 2025. According to the Correction Department account, staffers saw the unnamed man was “visibly ill” ...

Rikers Island will not shutter by the legally mandated deadline in 2027, according to a report released last week by the ...

The population on Rikers Island has risen to 7,067 people this week ... four smaller detention facilities near courthouses in ...

Her death is the fourth death of a Rikers detainee so far this year, and follows that of Ariel Quidone, 20, last week and ...

City agencies on Thursday held a design workshop at Borough Hall for the Queens jail, one of four facilities slated to ...

With just three months remaining until the Democratic primary, six candidates vying to become the next mayor of New York City ...