An inmate was found dead in his cell at the George R. Vierno Center at Rikers Island early Saturday morning, according to the ...

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 ...

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

The city's latest budget includes funds to grow the number of apartments in the Justice-Involved Supportive Housing program ...

Judge Laura Taylor Swain in 2014 appointed a federal monitor, but Rikers, part of the New York City Department of Correction, remains plagued by staffing problems, physical deterioration and violence.

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 the use in a correctional facility — the choice was obvious. “The Very Narrow ...

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