The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) recently opened a new wellness center at Rikers Island for staff that features a gym.

Adams expressed doubt that Rikers Island could close by the 2027 deadline set during ... and that officers had failed to properly tour his housing unit. In her State of the City address, New York City ...

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

A receiver could potentially be granted major powers to unilaterally make changes to everything from the hours in each tour correction officers work ... Mayor Eric Adams on a visit to Rikers Island on ...

She has served as the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district since 2019, which includes the eastern part of the Bronx, portions of north-central Queens, and Rikers Island ...

As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle ...

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 Airport ...

Harvey Weinstein begged to go on trial earlier than planned, saying he isn't sure he will survive long enough in the "hell ...

For New Yorkers seeking an end to generations of violence, dysfunction and racially disparate incarceration at Rikers Island, last year brought a glimmer of relief. In a long-running federal court ...