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 ...

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

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.

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

So when it came time to name the jail’s new siddur — perhaps the first ever Jewish prayer book compiled expressly for use in ...

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

A Pennsylvania man is suing two state troopers who filed drug charges against him for carrying a powdery white substance ...

A suit accuses New York State’s mental health system of delaying treatment to restore people to competency, leaving them to ...

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

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 ...