A 22-year-old man was arrested while already in prison in connection with a gas station burglary that took place in ...

FILE - The Rikers Island jail complex is shown in the Bronx borough of New York, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including ...

In fact, a plan for this already exists. On the spacious Rikers Island, the city can establish facilities and services for the mentally ill and drug-dependent, offer counseling and job training, and ...

The vast majority of people detained at Rikers are waiting for their day in court and have not been convicted of any crime.

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.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — First Deputy Mayor of New York City, Randy Mastro, joins Pix and Politics to talk about Rikers Island and the city losing control. A Federal Judge is giving it to an appointed ...

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 ...

A federal judge on Tuesday stripped New York City of its control over the Rikers Island jail, which will now effectively ... The jail has a longstanding reputation for violence and mistreatment of its ...

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 ...