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

A 21-year-old man suffering from a serious infection who went into medical distress Thursday in a jail on Rikers Island has died, according to officials and sources. Ariel Quidone had been held in the ...

An illegal strike by state correction officers was resolved, but its ripple effects are creating more dangerous conditions at ...

The Department of Correction’s civilian watchdog board accused the agency on Tuesday of repeatedly ignoring their authority ...

An inmate at Rikers Island is indicted for assaulting a correction officer, leading to serious injuries. Robert Ray allegedly ...

Harvey Weinstein is sour that he won’t get a party for his 73rd birthday at Rikers Island next week, and made the grim ...

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

In the governor’s Executive Budget for 2026, Hochul proposed relaxing certain aspects of the 2019 discovery reform law, also ...

As a judge considers appointing a receiver to oversee the jails, there are two very different plans for how that would work.

A City Council crime hearing last week was straight out of fantasy land — but without enough jail space, Police Commissioner ...