It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... correctional facilities in the US, inmates there await being shipped to a federal ...

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, ...

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport ...

By Priya Krishna Photographs by Brittainy Newman Priya Krishna and Brittainy Newman twice visited Rikers Island, where they were granted extensive access to a kitchen, its cooks and the detainees ...

Harvey Weinstein urged a New York judge on Wednesday to move up his April sexual assault retrial amid continued health issues and "medieval" conditions at New York City's Rikers Island.

he recalls. That prison sentence sent him to Rikers Island for a four-month sentence. He got out in two months for good behavior, but life after prison was where his real struggles began.

The Department of Corrections is planning to open similar centers at other facilities on Rikers, according to a news release. “Having these resources available to them on-island will better ...

For New Yorkers seeking an end to generations of violence, dysfunction and racially disparate incarceration at Rikers Island, last year brought a glimmer of relief. In a long-running federal court ...