the Benders founded and pastored Joy Fellowship Church and started a street evangelism ministry as well as a prison ministry for inmates in Rikers Island and Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.

Steve Vorrath, 30, and 34-year-old Marcel George Urban, both of Texas, were arrested and charged with possession of a stolen ...

The monitor appointed by a judge to track violence in the city’s notorious jail complex said in a highly-anticipated report ...

State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.

But these students are prisoners, serving time at the medium-security facility at the Adult Correctional ... Rhode Island state Senator Louis DiPalma, who heard about it from an inmate.

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

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

The death of a Marcy Correctional Facility inmate, who was beaten by correctional staff in December, has been ruled a homicide by the Onondaga County Medical Examiner's office.