A Manhattan judge on Monday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from going around a municipal law banning solitary confinement in city prisons, including Rikers Island.

Mayor Eric Adams didn’t follow the proper procedures when he declared a state of emergency and blocked a local law ...

Mayor Eric Adams exceeded his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a new law banning solitary confinement in ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Luis Bernier has languished on Rikers Island since March 12 because he can’t get transferred to prison due to the ripples still emanating from the state prison guards strike that ended in ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

New York City spends more than $2.8 billion a year to prop up Rikers — a failing, decrepit jail complex that delivers none of ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...