Rikers Island correction captains and officers revived a man who had overdosed on drugs, and a detainee with a long record of ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

An illegal strike by state correction officers was resolved, but its ripple effects are creating more dangerous conditions at ...

The Department of Correction’s civilian watchdog board accused the agency on Tuesday of repeatedly ignoring their authority and enacting changes on Rikers Island behind their backs.

By Hurubie Meko A commission on closing the Rikers Island jail complex urged New York City ... executive director of the commission. Guards and detainees are overwhelmingly Black and Latino.

The city will be legally barred from using Rikers after 2027, but the move-out can happen only if there are fewer than 5,000 ...

The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility and is the fourth fatality connected to New ...

In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can’t close by 2027, but the reality-denying City Council refuses to admit it. The first of the ...

An independent group looking into the dismantling of Rikers Island on Wednesday said the city's plan to close the jail ...

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 ...

In April, the city settled a lawsuit brought by Feliciano’s family and agreed to pay $28 million — one of the largest settlements in history for a jail incident — for damages and the ongoing ...