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

The female Department of Correction officer slugged by a man held on Rikers Island for also sucker-punching an MTA station ...

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

Border czar Tom Homan is “not happy” about the Big Apple’s lack of action to help President Trump’s immigration crackdown, ...

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

A new documentary by Catherine Gund tracks the loss, painting over and recovery of Ringgold’s motivational composition “For ...

A Rikers Island correction officer suffered bleeding on the brain and underwent emergency surgery after she was struck in the ...

The mother of a New York City correction officer exclusively spoke to Eyewitness News to plead for help finding the killer who shot her son five years ago.

As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

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