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

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 ...

The city released a video flyover of the design, as well as new inflated numbers for cost and completion date. It’s all bad news.

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

A Manhattan judge on Monday sentenced a man to a year behind bars for his involvement in a violent January 2024 brawl between ...

When you get a tip about a death or multiple deaths in your local jail or prison, there are concrete steps you can take to ...

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

He complained to Farber that jail officers gave him the wrong pills Wednesday morning and failed to pick him up for court in a timely fashion. “So many people suffering on Rikers Island," he said.

The disgraced movie mogul asked the court to push his trial date forward due to his deteriorating health , while wearing a ...