A Rikers Island inmate was indicted on charges she punched a correction officer in the face, causing a “deep gash” that ...

From crossovers on the basketball court to laser beam passes across the soccer field, and pieces of art, dreamed up in ...

City Councilman Robert Holden wants federal immigration agents at the massive jail complex — and questioned the mayor’s ...

Two high-ranking federal immigration officials on Thursday backed a new call to reopen an ICE office at Rikers Island that ...

The New York City Department of Correction is temporarily pulling its body cameras out of service after one of the gadgets ...

Mayor Eric Adams was sued by the City Council on Monday for his refusal to implement a law banning solitary confinement in ...

A Rikers Island corrections captain was recently accused of regularly sexually harassing and assaulting an officer who worked ...

A Correction captain on Rikers Island who cost the city $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim has been named in yet ...

The fatal assault occurred inside the home when a verbal dispute between the husband and his wife allegedly escalated into a physical altercation.

He had blood spattered on him," his attorney Imran H. Ansari says. "I was shocked to see that any prisoner would be treated ...

A Manhattan federal judge last week said she may appoint a receiver to oversee conditions at Rikers Island after ruling that ...

New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail is likely to be taken over by the federal government after a judge ruled the ...