The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

If a federal judge follows through with her threat to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island, she should make sure ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle ...

New York City’s Rikers Island jail spirals into chaos amid pandemic New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has been troubled by years of neglect and now has spiraled into turmoil during ...

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport ...

Mr. Reina, 56, is a cook on Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious 415-acre jail complex in Queens. He commutes two hours from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to prepare meals for the jail population and ...

New York’s Department of ... centers at other facilities on Rikers, according to a news release. “Having these resources available to them on-island will better support our staff’s physical ...