A Rikers Island correction officer suffered bleeding on the brain and underwent emergency surgery after she was struck in the ...

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, causing injuries severe enough to require emergency surgery, according to ...

A new documentary by Catherine Gund tracks the loss, painting over and recovery of Ringgold’s motivational composition “For ...

Ranked as one of the 10 worst correctional facilities in the US, inmates ... spent time in Rikers — have collaborated to write “City Time, On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island,” (New York ...

With every contract City Hall signs for new jails to replace Rikers, the completion date gets further and further away.

For his service to people on Rikers Island, Officer J. Martin of the city Department of Correction was recognized for Martin ...

Rikers Island has made a name for itself as a campus of prisons ... York City’s five boroughs who are awaiting trial or unable to post bail, as well as some inmates serving sentences of one year or ...

A gaunt-looking Harvey Weinstein pleaded with the judge in his upcoming criminal retrial to move the start date forward, even ...

Harvey Weinstein begged to go on trial earlier than planned, saying he isn't sure he will survive long enough in the "hell ...

Rikers Island has made a name for itself as a campus ... who are awaiting trial or unable to post bail, as well as some inmates serving sentences of one year or less. Most of the inmates are ...