The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission appointed by the City Council ...

The otherwise healthy young man who died at Elmhurst Hospital after just over a week on Rikers Island had a ruptured appendix ...

Ariel Quidone had been held in the Robert N. Davoren Center at Rikers since March 7 after he was arrested in Manhattan in ...

A 21-year-old man died after becoming critically ill in Department of Correction custody last week, according to his family — ...

A New York City correction officer was sentenced to two years’ probation and 250 hours of community service after failing to render aid for nearly eight minutes when an 18-year-old inmate at Rikers ...

An illegal strike by state correction officers was resolved, but its ripple effects are creating more dangerous conditions at ...

Lefty Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer is pushing the city to feed jailbirds “farm-to-table” meals, like ones served up at ...

The current system is deeply broken, and we are failing our city by failing to provide pathways to effective treatment ...

An inmate at Rikers Island is indicted for assaulting a correction officer, leading to serious injuries. Robert Ray allegedly ...

Harvey Weinstein will celebrate his 73rd birthday in Riker’s Island next week, and is predicting that he won’t live to see another year.

A New Jersey family says they would be heavily impacted by any proposed cuts to Medicaid. The Senate passed a GOP bill that ...

From his jail cell at Rikers Island on Sunday, Harvey Weinstein insisted that the dancing scene in "Down to You" that made ...