Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

Luis Bernier has languished on Rikers Island since March 12 because he can’t get transferred to prison due to the ripples ...

Mayor Eric Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and ...

Mayor Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and his ...

Mayor Eric Adams exceeded his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a new law banning solitary confinement in ...

Health officials told Lucy’s owners that she would have to leave the city. After the family, the neighborhood and its ...

A former jail on a South Bronx barge is slated to be dismantled to make way for the planned Hunts Point Marine Terminal.

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Mayor Eric Adams didn’t follow the proper procedures when he declared a state of emergency and blocked a local law ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 30-year-old man faces hate crime charges after a terrifying ordeal where he allegedly drove his car ...

A panel created by Mayor Eric Adams wants to let voters weigh in on reducing the City Council’s power to block new housing ...