Debra Granik’s five-hour documentary shows a former drug dealer turned entrepreneur striving to beat a system that continues to punish those that have served time ...

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a new Close Rikers czar charged with leading efforts to shutter the city's ...

The New York jail complex uses video games as part of its strategy to reduce violence with programming for good behavior. The New York jail complex uses video games as part of its strategy to reduce ...

The City Council wants to make it easier for thousands of Rikers Island inmates to vote by forcing jail officials to help them fix errors on their ballots — but the Department of Corrections said the ...

In 2017, it was announced that New York City's most infamous prison, would be shutting its doors. Now, almost a decade later, it's not clear whether they city will meet the mandated deadline for ...

Rikers Island, one of the most notable jails in the United States, has been slated to close for almost a decade. But with a closure deadline rapidly approaching, many have said that the city hasn't ...

As New York City’s first ever “close Rikers czar,” it’s Dana Kaplan’s job to get the notorious jails complex shut down ASAP. That’s a tall task under the best circumstances. And at this point it’s a ...

It was something city officials were celebrating. A "topping out" ceremony for the city's new Brooklyn jail — the first of four new jails set to replace Rikers Island. The last beam was put in place, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stanley Richards knows how bleak life can be at Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious jail complex. As a young man, he spent two years locked up there for robbery. Now, he runs the ...

A federal judge has selected Nicholas Deml, the former head of Vermont’s prison system, to take control of Rikers Island. Deml, who is also a former C.I.A. officer, has been named the new “Nunez ...

Two Rikers Island correction officers were suspended after a 39-year-old man died in his jail cell last month — the first person to perish at the long-troubled complex this year, according to a recent ...

NEW YORK — Talik Thomas spent three days trying to solve a puzzle in the survival horror game Daymare: 1998. In addition to its zombies are the devilishly hard puzzles, one of which requires properly ...