Mayor Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and his ...

The beleaguered jail has been under the supervision of a federal monitor since 2015 because of pervasive problems.

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

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

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

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

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

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 30-year-old man faces hate crime charges after a terrifying ordeal where he allegedly drove his car ...

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

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

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

New York City Mayor Eric Adams overstepped his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a ban on solitary ...