Adams expressed doubt that Rikers Island could close by the 2027 deadline set during ... fights and assaults on guards and the fact that staff are replacing broken cell doors. The Board of Correction ...

Wills said two officers also taunted him to kill himself after he was put in a punitive, solitary cell called the SHU ... one of his prison sentence on Rikers Island. He says that because of ...

The reaction to the mayor’s deal with the Trump administration to re-open ICE immigration operations on Rikers Island has ...

Adams said he would issue executive orders to reestablish a federal immigration presence at the jail complex – with a new mandate to work with the feds on investigations targeting migrant criminals ...

By Priya Krishna Photographs by Brittainy Newman Priya Krishna and Brittainy Newman twice visited Rikers Island, where they were granted extensive access to a kitchen, its cooks and the detainees ...

The Department of Correction came under fire Tuesday from a city oversight board for quietly creating a new high-security unit on Rikers Island that ... per day of out-of-cell time.

A picture she made in 1971 caused a minor scandal—minor for anyone but the artist and the growing number of women prisoners on Rikers Island, the main holding site in New York City for those ...

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, causing injuries severe enough to require emergency surgery, according to ...

This summary is reviewed by TRD Staff. Former HFZ Capital exec Nir Meir was denied a significant bail reduction and will remain in Rikers Island jail unless he can pay $5 million cash or $7.5 ...

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 ...

which was created for the notorious prison at New York’s Rikers Island, a facility that has has proven increasingly deadly as it has become disastrously overcrowded. Advocates for reform have ...