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 ...

Michael Conley, a suspect in a violent December home invasion, is escorted by NYPD officers into the 120th Precinct in St.

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

Last week, President Trump signed into law the Laken Riley Act, which requires the attorney general to detain any non-citizen ...

Friends and family of beloved Merritt Island piercing artist Alicia "Red" Campitelli were in tears Monday as her killer and ...

On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island" by David Campbell: "City Time" is an immersive ethnographic account of the social world ...

A new report from the Legal Aid Society this week details the failures of local and state governments to decarcerate its ...

President Donald Trump is helping to return sanity to the gender conversation by recognizing biological reality in his ...

Harvey Weinstein, a once-famous Hollywood producer, is in big trouble. He’s been in jail for a while and thinks he might die ...