The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

In court papers, Weinstein's lawyers argued that his stay at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex is exacerbating his health issues.

Thursday's hearing was held days after Weinstein was rushed from Rikers Island, where he is being held, to Bellevue Hospital ...

John J. Lennon, imprisoned for a brutal 2001 murder, is now a published writer in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Will his redemption be enough to earn clemency from Gov. Kathy Hochul?

A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

The Queens public defender arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-laced papers to a Rikers Island inmate has been ...

What You Need To Know A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager This past November, the same judge found the ...

The City Council’s lawsuit, which calls the executive order “the poisoned fruit of Mayor Adams’ deal with the Trump administration,” claims ICE will use its office on Rikers “to fuel the ...

New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has been troubled by years of neglect and now has spiraled into turmoil during the coronavirus pandemic. By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press Arts Aug 01 ...