Timothy McPadden, 41, of Mill Road in New Dorp, was arrested for the assault that occurred after an officer in uniform asked ...

A Manhattan judge is blocking Mayor Adams’ administration’s plan to let federal immigration agents operate on Rikers Island ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has worked with the Trump administration to open the ICE office on Rikers Island after an ...

Citing attacks from the Trump administration and overcrowding on Rikers Island, advocates for transgender people behind bars ...

Lateef Green, 50, was arrested less than 12 hours after he allegedly plunged the blade multiple times into the 21-year-old ...

The mayor’s office and the City Council remained in a standoff over the closure of Rikers Island on Wednesday, unable to agree on how the city should chart a new path toward shutting the deadly ...

Inside his cell on Rikers Island, Brian Croskey spends hours every day drawing elaborate artwork to free his mind. The 55-year-old from Washington Heights is halfway through an eight-month sentence ...

A judge has prohibited New York City for permitting federal law enforcement and immigration personnel from operating on Rikers Island's jail complex. File Photo by Justin Lane/EPA-EFE 31,560 ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today the removal of Wilver Cota-Ortiz, 43, a citizen of El Salvador ...

Harvey Weinstein is petitioning a New York court to move him from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital during his ongoing ...