Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

A former prison guard was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison on Thursday for sexually abusing three inmates at the ...

The wrongful-death lawsuit against the two men comes after the inmates were awarded a combined $367,500 from New York City as ...

The Queens public defender arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-laced papers to a Rikers Island inmate has been ...

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

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

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

Did you catch the news about Florida building a migrant detention center in the Everglades and calling it “Alligator Alcatraz ...

Even in a place like Rikers Island, light can break through. This year’s pre-Shavuos celebration transformed the prison into ...

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

The beleaguered jail has been under the supervision of a federal monitor since 2015 because of pervasive problems.