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

A coalition of exonerated New Yorkers, civil rights advocates, and public defender groups called on state lawmakers Monday to reject a “shameful” effort by Gov. Hochul and the city’s district ...

Harvey Weinstein reacted to Adrien Brody mentioning his and ex Georgina Chapman’s children during his Best Actor Oscars ...

Nearly 200 years ago, Richard Riker — a powerful judge whose family the island is named after — was at the center of a ...

Career criminal Sundance Oliver was already dubbed "a one-man crime wave" while he was on the streets of the Big Apple -- and ...

Under a provision of the revised contract carried over from the original signed during the pandemic, the commissary vendor, ...

The deaths were the first in 2025 to be connected to the Rikers Island jail complex, which may be taken over by a ...

A Rikers Island inmate died while in custody on Monday, marking the second in-custody death of 2025, less than a week after ...

Corrections staff, officers and family gathered Friday on Rikers Island to celebrate the legacy of a longtime Department of Corrections (DOC) employee who ...

NEW YORK CITY, NY – Tiffany Caban, a New York City council member, released a statement last week criticizing Mayor Eric ...

Council Member Robert Holden has praised Mayor Eric Adams for reopening the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office at the Rikers Island jail complex. “This is a significant ...