Inmates are running wild on Rikers Island amid an ongoing staffing crunch that’s left charges free to stab each other, answer the phones and run through corridors destroying maintenance equipment, The ...

More than one-third of the inmates imprisoned in Rikers Island’s urgent care unit have tested positive for COVID after completing the intake process there, according to the union that represents ...

"I am deeply honored and grateful to Mayor Mamdani for this appointment,” said DOC Commissioner Richards.

One female correction officer at Rikers Island walks around the troubled jail complex with her back to the wall after a male inmate grabbed her rear end. Another wakes up in cold sweats reliving the ...

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city's criminal justice system. The city is ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

An inmate at Rikers Island died in his prison cell Saturday morning – marking the ninth reported prisoner death at the troubled New York City jail this year, officials said. Ardit Billa, 29, who was ...

The city's juvenile jails are extremely violent and unsafe, the result of a deeply ingrained culture of violence in which guards routinely violate constitutional rights of teenage inmates and subject ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rikers Island is on lockdown after correction officers reported a missing inmate. Sources tell Eyewitness News that the inmate jumped a fence at the Anna M. Kross Center jail, ...

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city’s criminal justice system. The city is ...