The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...
In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...
For his service to people on Rikers Island, Officer J. Martin of the city Department of Correction was recognized for Martin ...
Former HFZ Capital exec Nir Meir was denied a significant bail reduction and will remain in Rikers Island jail unless he can ...
Steve Vorrath, 30, and 34-year-old Marcel George Urban, both of Texas, were arrested and charged with possession of a stolen ...
REPLACING STEFANIK: Democrats have selected St. Lawrence County dairy farmer Blake Gendebien to run for the seat being ...
The monitor appointed by a judge to track violence in the city’s notorious jail complex said in a highly-anticipated report ...
As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.
State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.