The City Council wants to make it easier for thousands of Rikers Island inmates to vote by forcing jail officials to help ...

A Department of Correction captain and 10 correction officers who worked at the Donald J. Cranston Judicial Center on Rikers ...

Advocates are urging the Mamdani administration to transfer a long-vacant Rikers Island jail facility out of Department of ...

After two deaths at Rikers Island jail, New Yorkers have a clear message for Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his administration. “Do ...

The long-delayed opening of the 104-bed unit comes with the decommissioning of the North Infirmary Command, the jail ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday a new therapeutic facility that will be used to treat the mental health of inmates from Rikers Island. The move marks the mayor’s first step ...

Rikers Island, New York City's most notorious jail complex, sits in the water between the Bronx and Queens. When I visited the complex in April 2025, I expected it to be hard to reach — and I wasn't ...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing furious backlash after breaking his Ramadan fast with Muslim jailbirds on notorious Rikers ...

The city on Wednesday will welcome patients to a long-delayed jail ward at Bellevue Hospital, finally putting to use a ...

A Long Island man who was shot and killed last week in Queens was attending a funeral for an accused drug kingpin who died at ...