On Rikers Island over the past two days, the patchwork of life in the jails unfolded. In one facility, a team of correction captains and officers revived a young man who had overdosed on drugs ...

A retired jail guard at Rikers Island was shot and killed by police after he charged at Long Island officers with a knife, ...

The Adams administration is preparing to reopen a jail facility on Rikers Island to add space for convicted people who should ...

The Department of Correction’s death toll continued to climb at a rapid rate this week after a 27-year-old died on Rikers ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ‘ administration is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at ...

Some 350 convicted people are crowded onto Rikers Island awaiting transfer to prisons ... the state fired some 2,000 guards who refused to return to work and is operating with about 75% of its ...

Adams expressed doubt that Rikers Island could close by the 2027 deadline set during ... That progress largely came in the form of fewer fights and assaults on guards and the fact that staff are ...

Mayor Adams’ office issued an executive order late Tuesday allowing ICE agents to operate on Rikers Island — a move sought by President Trump’s administration that comes on the heels of the Justice ...

A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in city custody in fewer than two months. Dashawn Jenkins, 27, succumbed ...

The Adams administration unloaded on a Brooklyn lawmaker who championed the closure of Rikers Island then complained about the construction of a new borough-based jail in his own district.

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 ...