Mayor Eric Adams continued to stray from the city’s current plan to shutter Rikers Island on Tuesday, suggesting that he ...

Attorneys for Mayor Eric Adams are appealing a court decision that’s temporarily blocking his administration from taking any steps to let federal immigration authorities operate on Rikers Island. In ...

A Correction Department officer was fired Monday after a Rikers Island inmate died of a suspected overdose. Inmate Elijah Muhammad was found unresponsive inside the island’s George R.

A unique exhibit at the Von King Cultural Arts Center in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood is shining a spotlight on ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... the actual ...

A judge ruled Friday that she will continue to block New York City Mayor Eric Adams' administration from giving office space on Rikers Island back to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called Rikers Island a “death camp” Monday ... Rikers has already seen five inmates so far this year, but some critics called out the speaker for her ...

The same week, a non-renewed, non-transformed Rikers Island reported its fifth inmate death of the year: Dashawn Jenkins, 27, who died of a ruptured appendix after days of obvious symptoms that jail ...

New York City councilmembers are set to hold a hearing Wednesday on a new path forward for closing the notorious Rikers Island jail complex, less than a month after an independent commission concl ...

Inmates at Rikers Island are typically not allowed to leave except for court dates or medical visits, making Croskey’s trip a rare exception. Frankie Carlucci, director of enrichment programs at ...