Violence on Rikers Island remains pervasive as the city waits for a federal judge to appoint a receiver to take over the ...

When a federal judge announced last May that she would appoint an independent “remediation manager” to impose long-delayed ...

The plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit had asked for an injunction after two men with serious medical needs died in ...

Bronx artist Thunder Bklu is officially pivoting. In a deeply personal new video, the rapper addressed his long absence from ...

Children as young as 12 are allegedly confined for weeks at a time with no education or human contact, a lawsuit claims.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has given his agencies 45 days to form a plan to rid Rikers Island of solitary ...

The Connecticut Office of Inspector General found that “significant medical errors” were made in relation to two inmates who died of overdoses at the Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown in July ...

Office of Children and Family Services facilities are violating state regulations governing the treatment of children in ...

A Department of Corrections officer was indicted Wednesday for smuggling marijuana and tobacco into a Rikers Island jail, in ...

On Tuesday, Mamdani signed an emergency executive order directing jail officials to figure out how to follow several city ...

Inmate Shemar Hassani-Shaw was indicted for slashing a Rikers Island officer's face last December. Charges include Attempted ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they ...