Even in a place like Rikers Island, light can break through. This year’s pre-Shavuos celebration transformed the prison into ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

The beleaguered jail has been under the supervision of a federal monitor since 2015 because of pervasive problems.

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the sixth and seventh people to die in or immediately after New York Department of ...

A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that gave him a painful, five-day erection — and ignoring his ...

Prosecutors said the defendant — listed in jail records at 5-feet-8 inches-tall and weighing 180 pounds — grabbed a kitchen ...

Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council announced a budget deal that includes bringing Sunday service to some library ...

A new Board of Correction report has backed up allegations detailed in October by the Daily News — that jail staff are ...

"We need a mayor who knows that in a city committed to seeing all of us thrive, there is no place for Rikers Island." ...

Taveon Hargrove was extradited from Virginia and now faces attempted murder charges for a cowardly attack on an off-duty NYPD ...

"We never turn people away, yet the demand consistently exceeds resources. Despite these challenges, our programs are proven ...