A Russian woman on the run. A Ukrainian salon worker. And a killer dessert. This is the wildest true crime tale you’ll read ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center barge in Hunts Point—which previously housed ...

Rikers Island, which has long drawn ire over its conditions, won't be within New York City's purview during the transition.

A federal judge on Tuesday officially seized control of Rikers Island ... to oversee the notorious jail complex that has been plagued by reports of violence, ill treatment, and inmate deaths.

A Rikers Island inmate behind bars for allegedly slashing ... the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most notorious lockup, according to the Department of Correction.

Ramel Powell, 38 - who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year - died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup ... facilities in the US, inmates there await being ...

But a family visiting space at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex is a little ... s Day means everything to me,” said Rikers inmate Nadine Leach, 43, as she watched her ...

These days, as an inmate at Rikers Island — New York City’s largest and most notorious jail — Padilla, 45, has drawn even closer to Judaism. Since being imprisoned at the 413-acre East River ...