An inmate at Rikers Island is indicted for assaulting a correction officer, leading to serious injuries. Robert Ray allegedly ...

Harvey Weinstein is sour that he won’t get a party for his 73rd birthday at Rikers Island next week, and made the grim ...

The Department of Correction’s civilian watchdog board accused the agency on Tuesday of repeatedly ignoring their authority ...

Despite assurances from Mayor Eric Adams that Rikers Island would finally open its doors to Immigration and Customs ...

He is among six officials and inmates who helped supply a "dangerous contraband market" at the New York City jail.

The fallout from the 22-day strike by state correction officers which ended Monday has put more than 300 people awaiting ...

As a judge considers appointing a receiver to oversee the jails, there are two very different plans for how that would work.

They've drunk the decarceration Kool-Aid — and they're convinced that jails do more harm than good. Yet the facts prove them wrong.

A judge granted a request from the Manhattan district attorney’s office to call Dawn Hughes, a psychologist with expertise in ...

Top officials at the Department of Correction said Friday that the mayor’s office has yet to speak with them about the ...