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

Robert Ray, who allegedly punched Correction Officer Shamika Mitchell in the face on Rikers Island, is in jail for allegedly punching an MTA station agent, also a woman, in the face.

the island that once served as a military training ground during the Civil War, and today has a view of LaGuardia’s runways and the Mets home ground, Citi Field. Rikers is spread over 413 acres ...

A picture she made in 1971 caused a minor scandal—minor for anyone but the artist and the growing number of women prisoners on Rikers Island ... placed outside the volatile city jail system ...

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

Now, his administration is proposing a new role for Maginley-Liddie: compliance director, which would be in charge of the court-ordered overhaul of Rikers and the rest of the city's jail system.

That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers ... the island that once served as a military training ground during the Civil War, and today has a view ...

which was created for the notorious prison at New York’s Rikers Island, a facility that has has proven increasingly deadly as it has become disastrously overcrowded. Advocates for reform have ...

Following increased calls for action, de Blasio and then-city Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte announced a 14-point plan to create a safe environment for incarcerated people at Rikers Island. De ...

The original series, which streams on Peacock, remains popular: Nielsen said in its year-end streaming release that U.S.