The officials, Russell Hott and Peter Berg, were recently cut from ICE’s enforcement division amid increasing pressure from the Trump administration to ramp up the number of illegal migrant ...

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

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.

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

Family and friends of Jakarta Jackson blasted the Rock Island Police Department during Monday night’s Rock Island City ...

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, ...

Al Booker, 41, has managed to rack up more than 40 arrests -- mostly for burglary and criminal mischief -- in a Manhattan ...

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

For his service to people on Rikers Island, Officer J. Martin of the city Department of Correction was recognized for Martin ...

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

The costs of mandatory overtime and abuse of the system have hurt the Police Department’s budget and pushed many officers to ...

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