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.

It was the second time in a year a jury was unable to reach a verdict on a rape charge brought by Jessica Mann.

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 ...

The murder of Robert Brooks in December of 2024 shook the state’s prison system – and it was, perhaps, confirmation of a belief many had whispered to me in the past: New York State’s prisons were ...

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 ...