A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that ...

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 still emanating from the state prison guards strike that ended in ...

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

New York City Mayor Eric Adams overstepped his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a ban on solitary ...

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

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

NEW YORK — As Rikers Island continues to be in turmoil, lawyers are preparing to ask a federal judge to consider emergency relief to alleviate conditions on the island.

Police allege that an off-duty NYPD officer was brutally robbed in the Bronx by 23-year-old men from Staten Island and the ...

Mayor Eric Adams illegally declared a state of emergency in the city’s jails in an effort to skirt around implementing a law ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...