All 51 seats are up for election this year, and the Democratic primary battles feature crowded fields, moneyed interests and ...

Luis Bernier has languished on Rikers Island since March 12 because he can’t get transferred to prison due to the ripples ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

For weeks, lawmakers had called on the governor to sign the “Less is more Act,” citing the ongoing crisis of mismanagement at the city’s jail complex on Rikers Island that has resulted in 10 ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...

Months after his initial release from jail, authorities sent Vicious to Rikers Island after he attacked the brother of Patti Smith with a broken beer bottle. While in Rikers, Vicious underwent drug ...