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

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 ...

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

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

One detainee was discovered in a cell at the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island. The second, sources said, appears to ...

From June 4-15, the 24th annual Tribeca Film festival played host to a catalogue of some of the year’s most anticipated ...

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

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge blocked New York City’s mayor from letting federal immigration authorities reopen an office at the city’s main jail, in part because of concerns the mayor invited them back in ...

Judge blocks plan to allow im­mi­gration agents on Rikers Island BY Associated Press New York City PUBLISHED 12:51 PM ET Jun. 14, 2025 ...

A public defender has been charged with trying to smuggle contraband into the Rikers Island jail complex after, officials said, he brought papers to a client meeting that were laced with THC, the ...