A guard found the man in distress in a bathroom at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center around 12:05 a.m., according to the ...

A new report by the Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College warns that Rikers Island has become the largest mental ...

The rising demand for mental health and substance use services at the jails — amid a looming mandate to close the troubled ...

The death is the 13th jail-related death in 2025, the most since 2022, the first year of the Adams administration, when there ...

A pilot program requiring officers to work their normal eight hours plus four hours of overtime will start Nov. 30 at the ...

Edwin Ramos was hours away from freedom. Ramos, 38, was set to plead guilty to an attempted burglary charge at a hearing in ...

A 38-year-old man on Rikers Island became the 13th person this year to die in Department of Correction custody, agency officials announced on Friday.

Corey Henry receives a 5-year sentence for stabbing fellow inmates at Rikers Island, pleading guilty to Assault and Attempted Murder.

It’s official. After years of court battles, debate, and continued concerns about violence and excessive force plaguing the troubled jails system, a federal judge stripped New York City of its control ...

The New York City Council filed a lawsuit Tuesday trying to stop the Adams administration's move allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate on Rikers Island. First Deputy Mayor Randy ...

Ex-correction officer Dionisio Rosario gets 90-day jail term for planting weapon in inmate's cell at Rikers Island.