Socialist mayor appoints Stanley Richards as corrections commissioner, making him the first ex-con to hold the role as New York City pushes reforms.

Stanley Richards is taking over as correction commissioner at an inflection point for the city’s jails. Mayor Zohran Mamdani ...

Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.

New York City is set to bar ICE from operating at any of its 19 correction facilities — including Rikers Island. The Safer ...

Rikers Island's new remediation manager, who was named on Tuesday, will have authority even beyond that of the city’s ...

After finding the city in contempt of 18 court orders to reduce violence and the use of excessive force on Rikers Island in ...

Leadership of the notoriously problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex has officially fallen into federal hands with the ...

The notoriously violent Rikers is supposed to close in 2027 and be replaced with four smaller jails dispersed across the city ...

After more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

The judge named Nicholas Deml to oversee the city jail, a change that will test Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ability to work with ...