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 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 ...

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

A new Board of Correction report has backed up allegations detailed in October by the Daily News — that jail staff are ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

After NYC Department of Correction (DOC) confirmed on Saturday, June 21, that two additional people have died on or in ...

The death toll at Rikers Island jumped to seven this year with two men dying at the notorious jail Friday, officials said.

A 19-year-old visiting an abandoned prison to take photos needed rescuing when he “became trapped in a cell” at the former New York correctional center, authorities said.. After calling for ...

A man trespassing at an abandoned New York prison for photos got trapped in a cell, then arrested by troopers, state police say. He faces a criminal charge.