In May 2023, after a spike in deaths on Rikers Island, city jail officials suddenly stopped notifying the media shortly after ...

Rikers Island has a decades-long reputation of spiraling dysfunction, brutality, and even death against those awaiting trial. The East River prison allowed Eyewitness News onto their grounds to ...

The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and ...

John J. Lennon, imprisoned for a brutal 2001 murder, is now a published writer in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Will ...

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

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

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

Mayor Eric Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and his threat to arrest the Democratic mayoral nominee ...

A Manhattan judge on Monday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from going around a municipal law banning solitary confinement in city prisons, including Rikers Island.

Weinstein has had many health problems, and he attended the Manhattan trial in a wheelchair. He spent the months leading up to the trial at the notorious Rikers Island jail and in a Manhattan hospital ...

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of sexual assault in a retrial after his 2020 conviction was overturned. The judge also declared a mistrial on another charge.