An illegal strike by state correction officers was resolved, but its ripple effects are creating more dangerous conditions at ...

An inmate at Rikers Island is indicted for assaulting a correction officer, leading to serious injuries. Robert Ray allegedly ...

He is among six officials and inmates who helped supply a "dangerous contraband market" at the New York City jail.

The Department of Correction’s civilian watchdog board accused the agency on Tuesday of repeatedly ignoring their authority ...

A Rikers Island inmate behind bars for allegedly slashing a stranger with a boxcutter died in custody this week – marking the city’s first detainee death in 2025, officials and sources said.

Lefty Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer is pushing the city to feed jailbirds “farm-to-table” meals, like ones served up at ...

As a judge considers appointing a receiver to oversee the jails, there are two very different plans for how that would work.

As the 2027 deadline to close the Rikers Island jail complex looms and the city moves forward with a plan to replace it, ...

Ramel Powell, 38 - who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year - died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility ...