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

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

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

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

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 Hollis man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the fatal beating of a pawnshop owner in Jamaica, said the office of Queens District Attorney Melinda ...

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

Sid Vicious was charged with the murder of Nancy Spungen in October 1978, but died in February 1979 ...

According to The Independent, Vicious initially told police that he was responsible for Spungen's death from a single stab ...

Jurors have started deliberating in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial. The closed-door discussions began Wednesday. The jury is ...

Harvey Weinstein's latest sex crimes trial ended with a hung jury Friday, on the third day of deliberations. It was the ...

The person who allegedly shot a man in a Hollis sports bar killed his own half-brother, said the office of Queens District ...