As a potential federal takeover of Rikers Island looms over the city, a court-appointed monitor said in a highly anticipated ...

A push by New York City jail officials to block people detained at Rikers Island from receiving physical mail was based on ...

NYC's Rikers Island mail ban proposal is questioned due to high rates of false positives in fentanyl field tests, where only ...

An attempt to keep a schizophrenic man out of Rikers Island — where deplorable conditions for the mentally ill have been well ...

The problems with these test kits are well-known, and there have been hundreds of documented cases of wrongful arrests based ...

A wee bit tipsy man on a scooter somehow blew past two checkpoints and roamed around Rikers Island before his nighttime joyride was cut short by security, court records show. Gerald Yanez, 23, drove ...

Perhaps no one could have predicted Ramon Rivera would allegedly go on a stabbing spree in broad daylight one month after ...

A longtime Rikers Island correction officer needed six stitches to close a gaping gash over her eye Friday, after allegedly ...

The head of the city’s Department of Correction had little to say when asked about allegations that officers regularly lock ...

The Correction Department will jam another 10 beds into dormitory-style housing areas at one jail on Rikers Island as part of ...

He was incarcerated on Rikers Island when he was 16 and returned when he was 19. Guzman discusses the conditions inside the New York City jail complex. He mentions corrupt guards, gang-controlled ...