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.

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

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 ...

For nearly a decade, a federal judge has been pushing to end abuse and violence in the jails on Rikers Island. With chronic staffing shortages ... most of which could be safely addressed outside of a ...