A Rikers Island officer, an inmate, and the inmate's wife are charged with smuggling contraband into the jail, including ...

The family of a 20-year-old man who died of appendicitis in Rikers Island custody last year is suing the city and the ...

Aramis Furse, 32, was found unresponsive in his jail cell in December. A federal monitor says guards routinely fail to tour ...

Mayor Mamdani is now running the city, but soon he and the Department of Correction will not be running Rikers Island, the ...

DOC Officer Steven Davis was indicted for smuggling marijuana and tobacco into a Rikers Island jail, in addition to tools giving inmates access to vents, light fixtures and other likely hiding ...

The report lands at what the monitor describes as a “critical and uncertain” moment for the jail and Department of Correction ...

Violence on Rikers Island remains pervasive as the city waits for a federal judge to appoint a receiver to take over the ...

When a federal judge announced last May that she would appoint an independent “remediation manager” to impose long-delayed ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city must develop a plan that implements a law banning prolonged solitary confinement in city ...

Rikers Island is in the spotlight after a guard's suspension following a detainee's death and a lawsuit over another ...

Unlike his two predecessors, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has no hope of avoiding a hard time with the Rikers Island jails.

Mayor Mamdani has ordered city corrections officials to come up with a plan to bring NYC jails into compliance with a law ...