Rikers Island

New York's quest to replace the troubled Rikers Island jail complex with smaller facilities across the five boroughs could lead to either hazardous overcrowding or the release of dangerous detainees, ...

The Florida Senate voted on April 20 to strip Disney World of its special "self-governing" privilege. In a ...

Protesters gathered outside New York City Hall on Wednesday to demand that the Rikers Island jail gets shut down. ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered the immediate release of 191 inmates from the crisis-stricken Rikers Island ...

The beleaguered New York City jail on Rikers Island has slipped to the edge of utter chaos due ...

New York City will release around 300 non-violent inmates from Rikers Island in an effort to stem the ...

Video footage shows a Rikers Island inmate brawling with a guard, and it appears that nobody came to ...

NEW YORK—Sophisticated X-ray body scanners that could curb widespread smuggling of scalpels and razors at New York City's ...

NEW YORK— Candie Hailey spent more than three years in a New York City jail, most of it ...

A record number of use-of-force incidents at Rikers Island in 2014 may not mean inmates experienced more violence.

Rikers Island is a 10-jail facility where an average of 11,000 inmates a night—men, women and youths—are held ...

Dissatisfied with New York City’s progress toward reforming conditions at the Rikers Island jail complex, federal authorities announced ...

The city’s Rikers Island jail complex, rife with abuses that were documented in recent media exposes and a ...

The New York City mayor wants to spend $130 million over four years to overhaul how the nation's ...

At a Thursday press briefing on the Department of Correction's planned reforms of jail conditions at Rikers Island, ...

NEW YORK—Public defender Josh Saunders has seen over and over again how his clients go to jail and ...

These are the deaths in New York City's Rikers Island jail that don't make headlines—prisoners with diseases, disorders, ...

For Johnny Perez, the horrors of being placed in solitary confinement still remain fresh in his memory. More ...

NEW YORK—About a dozen advocates for the fair treatment of the incarcerated gathered on Thursday, demanding that prosecutions ...

The mother of the man who died in an overheated jail cell at Rikers Island has sent initial ...

Former drug lord and Rikers Island Latin Kings gang founder, Christian Claudio, is now helping young gang members ...

NEW YORK— A man who stole a taxi and drove at 80 mph from the Lower East Side ...