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

the island that once served as a military training ground during the Civil War, and today has a view of LaGuardia’s runways and the Mets home ground, Citi Field. Rikers is spread over 413 acres ...

which was created for the notorious prison at New York’s Rikers Island, a facility that has has proven increasingly deadly as it has become disastrously overcrowded. Advocates for reform have ...

The original series, which streams on Peacock, remains popular: Nielsen said in its year-end streaming release that U.S.

Now, his administration is proposing a new role for Maginley-Liddie: compliance director, which would be in charge of the court-ordered overhaul of Rikers and the rest of the city's jail system.

If a federal judge follows through with her threat to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island, she should make sure ...

For nearly a decade, a federal judge has been pushing to end abuse and violence in the jails on Rikers Island. With chronic staffing shortages ... most of which could be safely addressed outside of a ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers ... the island that once served as a military training ground during the Civil War, and today has a view ...

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 ...

The New York City Department of Corrections logo is pictured on the floor of a Rikers Island jail. (Todd Maisel ... say the receiver should be an “outside person” with the power to change ...

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