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

Family drama with Harvey Weinstein ... he's suing his own brother from jail, claiming his sibling tricked him into ...

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 ...

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

However, he remains in prison due to his California conviction ... Harvey Weinstein endured a health setback when he was rushed from his Rikers Island cell to nearby Bellevue Hospital for ...

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 ...

BRONX, N.Y. — A Rikers Island inmate has been indicted on multiple charges, including arson and assault, after allegedly starting a fire in his cell and slashing two New ... and multiple counts of ...

A Queens woman who allegedly was driving the rental truck that killed Flushing resident David Opiela in a hit-and-run wreck ...

Leon Howell, 43, took the 51-year-old woman’s iPhone during the brutal Tuesday attack inside the building at Montague and Henry Streets – but that ended up working to cops’ advantage when they ...