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

Family drama with Harvey Weinstein ... he's suing his own brother from jail, claiming his sibling tricked him into ...

A Queens woman who allegedly was driving the rental truck that killed Flushing resident David Opiela in a hit-and-run wreck ...

Leon Howell, 43, took the 51-year-old woman’s iPhone during the brutal Tuesday attack inside the building at Montague and Henry Streets – but that ended up working to cops’ advantage when they ...

Brutally violent, compelling, and crisp, ‘Prison Cell 211’ is a fast-paced prison drama partly ... Kalief was charged with a crime he did not even commit and was sent to Rikers Island Prison for three ...

A former assistant chief at New York’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office heralded Mayor Eric Adams’ vow to ...

Adams is set to issue an executive order to allow federal immigration authorities into Rikers Island jail complex after ...

New York City's Democratic Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday he will issue an executive order that will allow federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into Rikers Island to assist ...

The prison's reputation as filthy, violent and corrupt is not in dispute. Over time, women were transferred from the original women's detention hall on Rikers Island. “They didn't move the ...

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 ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he’ll allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city’s Rikers Island jail following a meeting Thursday with President Donald Trump’s ...

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction ... must face consecutive sentences for their crimes committed in jail,” said union head Benny Boscio. “We demand justice for ...