The city is piloting a program that gives Rikers Island detainees municipal IDs in the hopes that it eases their transition ...

A teenager accused of repeatedly taking city subway trains on high-speed joyrides will have to spend more than a month on ...

The judicial appointment of an outside authority to temporarily run Rikers Island offers a rare opportunity to transform one ...

A Rikers Island detainee’s lawsuit against the City of New York and two correctional officers was tossed this week after a federal judge found that his constitutional rights were not violated during a ...

Hundreds of mentally ill people are routinely trapped on Rikers Island for months at a time without court-ordered treatment ...

New York City lawmakers on Thursday moved a step closer to closing Rikers Island, a massive jail complex notorious for violence and dysfunction that is increasingly seen as a relic.

NEW YORK -- The city corrections commissioner on Tuesday detailed proposed reforms to the problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex that include changes to the housing of teenage and young adult ...

NEW YORK CITY, New York -- A Rikers Island inmate was quickly caught after trying to escape by jumping into the East River during recreation time Thursday. Authorities said 37-year-old Arthur ...

A New York-area neurologist convicted in July of sexually assaulting his patients was found dead of an apparent suicide Monday morning in the Rikers Island jail complex, his attorney and ...

When some of Rabbi Mia Simring’s congregants named themselves The Very Narrow Bridge Congregation, they weren’t just ...

Jimmy, 55, from Queens, New York, was serving a year sentence for petty larceny when COVID-19 spread to Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island.