As a judge considers appointing a receiver to oversee the jails, there are two very different plans for how that would work.
A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...
Career criminal Sundance Oliver was already dubbed “a one-man crime wave” while he was on the streets of the Big Apple — and ...
Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...
The city Department of Correction said it was still investigating the death and had no further details on how the person died ...
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 ...
Nearly 200 years ago, Richard Riker — a powerful judge whose family the island is named after — was at the center of a ...
Nearly two dozen Trinitarios gang members in Massachusetts have been charged with RICO conspiracy. What does that charge mean ...
A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...
Mr. Reina, 56, is a cook on Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious 415-acre jail complex in Queens. He commutes two hours from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to prepare meals for the jail population and ...
Mayor Adams seeks to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents back onto Rikers Island, he said in a statement ...
That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...