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

He said the four new smaller jails combined can only hold about 62% of the inmates currently incarcerated on Rikers Island. "There's something that has seemed to have left our city and government ...

News 12 spoke with Brooklyn mother Kimberly, whose son is currently at Rikers Island. Wall Street Journal Shatters Core Trump Fantasy In Editorial Urging GOP 'Revolt' California changes ...

The recently announced federal-court takeover of Rikers Island was a long-overdue attempt ... “Staff frequently punch, strike, or kick Young Inmates in the head or facial area,” the Justice ...

Nir Meir is heading back to Rikers Island and has hired a new lawyer. Meir, a former top executive of New York City real estate development firm HFZ Capital Group, was ordered back to jail on May ...

This week, a federal judge appointed a remediation manager for Rikers Island. So will it make a difference in conditions there? "They didn't create this mess. I don't think they made it much better.

This week, a federal judge ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. Lawyers for detainees on Rikers Island have argued in court ...

Calling the conditions at Rikers Island “dangerous and unsafe,” federal ... violence permeates the jail system and inmates die regularly from fentanyl overdoses and suicide.

Immigrants living in New York who were unlawfully held on Rikers Island because federal immigration agents asked the city to do so have another three months to claim their share of a $92.5 million ...

This comes after the same judge held the city in contempt last November for failing to reduce violence in the notorious jail complex. Rikers Island is one of the nation ... for violence and ...

Rikers Island, the New York City jail complex, has been notorious for decades for its high rates of violence, lawlessness, and abuse within its walls. Now, an effort to curb its dysfunction and ...

A federal judge has taken control of the Rikers Island correctional facility out ... jail complex plagued with instances of violence and inmate deaths. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ...