Investigations into alleged abuses by Rikers Island officers will no longer be handled by the Department of Correction, ...

The City Council this week demanded the Department of Correction answer long-ignored questions about how it's changed – or ...

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

Donny Ruben Ubiera’s estate received $2.4 million and Jose Mejia Martinez’s estate received $2.7 million in settlement money.

New York City’s new correction commissioner is the first formerly incarcerated person to oversee the city’s jails.

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 City has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to settle lawsuits brought by the families of two men who died of ...

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 ...

Houlder and Hawkins are set to return to Bronx court on July 1. The pretrial phase could surface more of the surveillance footage that prosecutors say undercuts the officers’ written reports, and it ...

“These defendants are accused of using pepper spray on inmates in violation of department guidelines,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement. “To cover up these alleged violations, ...

For decades, the unfixable Rikers Island has hurt New Yorkers — those inside the massive complex’s walls and all of us beyond them. Under city law, the Mamdani administration must produce a plan to ...

New York City has paid more than $5 million over the past few weeks to settle two suits alleging the city is responsible for ...