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

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

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

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

A Department of Corrections officer was indicted Wednesday for smuggling marijuana and tobacco into a Rikers Island jail, in ...

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

Mayor Zohran Mamdani late Monday renewed a long-running state of emergency on Rikers Island, signing an executive order he acknowledged would prolong a controversial legal workaround used by his ...

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

Mayor Zohran Mamdani put New York City’s troubled jail system on the clock to end solitary confinement — issuing yet another executive order to unravel his predecessor’s actions. Mamdani signed an ...

One female correction officer at Rikers Island walks around the troubled jail complex with her back to the wall after a male inmate grabbed her rear end. Another wakes up in cold sweats reliving the ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued an emergency executive order to overhaul the city's approach to solitary ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they ...