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

Almost a decade ago, plans were made to shut down Rikers Island for good. Here's the deadline the city was given to shut its doors.

The investigative minds at How to Survive explore the psychological resilience and survival tactics used by inmates on Rikers ...

The city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed ...

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

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.

A New York has declared a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape case from the #MeToo-era that has gone to trial three times so ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...