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.

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 ...