Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in ...

Governor Maura Healey's plan, which is nine times more expensive than a replacement pitched during the tenure of former ...

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

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

Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon ...

It was that same arrogance that killed her..." said the victim's brother during the sentencing proceedings Monday.

Donna Hylton, a women's rights and prison reform advocate who was held on Rikers Island as a teenager, said the women's transfer would bring some benefit, but she cautioned that in order to ...

Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has seized control of the facility from New York City and placed it under ...

The prison's reputation as filthy, violent and corrupt is not in dispute. Over time, women were transferred from the original women's detention hall on Rikers Island.

What is Rikers Island prison in New York City? Rikers Island has made a name for itself as a campus of prisons filled with stories of abuse, murder, inedible food and rats, according to a USA ...