The Trump administration’s tactics to swiftly detain and deport immigrants have businesses and advocates in New York City ...

The Riviera Beach Police Department announced the arrest of Isaiah Singleton following an incident that happened in May on ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Months after his initial release from jail, authorities sent Vicious to Rikers Island after he attacked the brother of Patti Smith with a broken beer bottle. While in Rikers, Vicious underwent drug ...

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

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

"We need a mayor who knows that in a city committed to seeing all of us thrive, there is no place for Rikers Island." ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.