This sentence could involve a fine, probation or even prison time ... some dire pictures emerged from inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island. Up to 26 men were squeezed ...

The Adams administration is making good on a promise to allow federal immigration agents to open an office on Rikers Island.

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called Rikers Island a “death camp” Monday even as she admitted the troubled jail complex ...

For the first time in history, a former American President, Donald Trump, could be set for a prison term following ... the ...

Defendants who were found unfit to stand trial waited on Rikers an average of 79 days as of last fall, according to the ...

An executive order says federal immigration agents would work with city officials on criminal investigations only. Critics ...

He was incarcerated on Rikers Island when he was 16 and returned when he was 19. Guzman discusses the conditions inside the New York ... myths about Rikers being a prison and who is incarcerated ...

Federal judge will hear arguments on potential takeover of New York City’s troubled jail system A federal judge has agreed to begin a process that could wrest control of New York City's troubled ...