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

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

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

Adams expressed doubt that Rikers Island could close by the 2027 deadline set during ... later after jumping into the East River from a recreation yard on the roof of a barge. Elmore Robert Pondexter ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Currently held in Pennsylvania's State Correctional Institution at Huntington, Mangione is awaiting extradition proceedings that could send him to New York's infamous Rikers Island. According to ...