A Rikers Island inmate was indicted on charges she punched a correction officer in the face, causing a “deep gash” that ...

NYC has quietly mounted a campaign to lobby for the appointment of Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie to oversee Rikers Island and the jail system if a federal judge chooses to ...

The New York City Department of Correction is temporarily pulling its body cameras out of service after one of the gadgets ...

A Correction captain on Rikers Island who cost the city $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim has been named in yet ...

He had blood spattered on him," his attorney Imran H. Ansari says. "I was shocked to see that any prisoner would be treated ...

A judge found New York City in contempt of an agreement meant to improve jail conditions, setting the stage for a ...

A judge may order a federal takeover of Rikers Island due to persistent violence and unmet reform requirements.

A pair of federal immigration bigwigs on Thursday called for the long-shuttered ICE office at the Rikers Island jail complex to reopen — one day after The Post reported on a similar plea from a ...

The judge found that conditions have only continued to worsen at the jail complex, setting up a potential federal takeover.

One day after Mayor Eric Adams expressed his willingness to collaborate with the incoming Trump administration on addressing ...

New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail is likely to be taken over by the federal government after a judge ruled the ...

By Emily Smith Harvey Weinstein’s legal team fear he will die in the “torture chamber or medieval dungeon” Rikers Island Prison, where they say he has been left festering in blood-spattered ...