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

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

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 ...

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

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

A Manhattan federal judge last week said she may appoint a receiver to oversee conditions at Rikers Island after ruling that ...

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 ...

It now looks all but certain that Rikers Island will go into receivership, meaning that a federal judge will appoint new management and the city will be sidelined. Good.Mayor Adams ...

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 ...