A 21-year-old being held on Rikers Island died over the weekend, marking the third detainee death seen at the troubled jail ...

A new report says delays in building four replacement jails mean the city will miss the legally mandated Rikers closure date.

In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 ...

The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission appointed by the City Council ...

An independent commission says the facility can still be shuttered despite a jail population that exceeds capacity of planned ...

New York City should create two new positions to oversee the closure of Rikers Island, which is mandated to take place by ...

The otherwise healthy young man who died at Elmhurst Hospital after just over a week on Rikers Island had a ruptured appendix ...

A Lower East Side man likely died of untreated appendicitis hours after his release from Rikers, according to his family, who ...

An independent group looking into the dismantling of Rikers Island on Wednesday said the city's plan to close the jail ...

The Independent Rikers Commission, a collective tasked with examining the city’s plan to close Rikers Island, has unveiled a ...

Winston Nguyen, who taught math at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pressuring ...

Lefty Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer is pushing the city to feed jailbirds “farm-to-table” meals, like ones served up at ...