Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in ...

North Brother Island in New York was used as a quarantine location for infected patients, including the infamous 'Typhoid Mary' Mallon, from the 1880 until 1943 ...

ToplinePresident Donald Trump renewed his attacks on Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, calling the Democratic nominee for New York ...

Mayor Eric Adams didn’t follow the proper procedures when he declared a state of emergency and blocked a local law ...

Mayor Eric Adams exceeded his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a new law banning solitary confinement in ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

Police allege that an off-duty NYPD officer was brutally robbed in the Bronx by 23-year-old men from Staten Island and the ...

A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that ...

"We need a mayor who knows that in a city committed to seeing all of us thrive, there is no place for Rikers Island." ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

After NYC Department of Correction (DOC) confirmed on Saturday, June 21, that two additional people have died on or in ...