From crossovers on the basketball court to laser beam passes across the soccer field, and pieces of art, dreamed up in ...

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

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

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

A Rikers Island corrections captain was recently accused of regularly sexually harassing and assaulting an officer who worked ...

A judge's scathing ruling Wednesday moves New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail complex a step closer to a federal ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

An aerial view of Rikers Island in New York City. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) For that reason, the judge wrote that she ...

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

Five inmates on Rikers Island were dead by July of last year ... election interference case against him on the grounds ...

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

The Rikers Island jail is slated to be closed in 2027, but the city has pushed back deadlines to do so.