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

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

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

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

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

City should create two new positions to oversee the closure of Rikers Island, which is mandated by law to take place by 2027, ...

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

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

Rikers Island correction captains and officers revived a man who had overdosed on drugs, and a detainee with a long record of ...

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

Ariel Quidone had been held in the Robert N. Davoren Center at Rikers since March 7 after he was arrested in Manhattan in ...

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