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

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.

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

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

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

In this video, star La La Anthony shares what she's most excited to hear about the sheer amount of inspiration in the room at the TIME 100 Gala. A gathering of influential people are sharing how ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Federal Magistrate Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh expressed reservations regarding the pretrial treatment of Cole Tomas Allen, ...

ICE protest in Bushwick over the weekend, elected officials from Brooklyn called for the NYPD to respect New York’s sanctuary ...