The City Council was wrong to write a law purporting to ban solitary confinement on Rikers Island, as it would significantly ...

A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...

Following increased calls for action, de Blasio and then-city Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte announced a 14-point plan to create a safe environment for incarcerated people at Rikers Island.

The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and determination of young detainees, awaiting their cases to be adjudicated by the ...

Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has seized control of the facility from New York City and placed it under ...

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

A Manhattan judge on Monday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from going around a municipal law banning solitary confinement in city prisons, including Rikers Island.

A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.

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