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

Adams is set to issue an executive order to allow federal immigration authorities into Rikers Island jail complex after ...

De Blasio released a roadmap for the jail complex’s closure ... On Aug. 22, Donny Ubiera died in his cell on Rikers Island, becoming the eighth person to die in DOC custody this year. The department ...

New York City's Democratic Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday he will issue an executive order that will allow federal ...

A former assistant chief at New York’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office heralded Mayor Eric Adams’ vow to ...

A woman held on Rikers Island claims in a shocking 33-page handwritten ... paints a disturbing picture of a lawless environment in the women’s jail with rampant drug use, bullying of weaker ...

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 ...

That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... await being shipped to a federal prison for long stretches, or are short-timers ...

Mr. Reina, 56, is a cook on Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious 415-acre jail complex in Queens. He commutes two hours from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to prepare meals for the jail population and ...

The monitor appointed by a judge to track violence in the city’s notorious jail complex said in a highly-anticipated report ...

The Department of Correction came under fire Tuesday from a city oversight board for quietly creating a new high-security unit on Rikers Island that ... per day of out-of-cell time.