As a judge considers appointing a receiver to oversee the jails, there are two very different plans for how that would work.

Winston Nguyen, who taught math at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, was accused of soliciting lewd images from students. He ...

Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...

Career criminal Sundance Oliver was already dubbed “a one-man crime wave” while he was on the streets of the Big Apple — and ...

A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...

The man had a medical emergency while in a holding area at Manhattan court, according to the city Department of Correction ...

Corrections officers object to even limited constraints on their ability to impose a regime of terror on inmates.

The city Department of Correction said it was still investigating the death and had no further details on how the person died ...

A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...

A 37-year-old man died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, in the first death in the system in 2025, according ...