Rikers Island inmates at the East River jail recently celebrated walking across the stage, beating the odds of an uncertain future behind bars. These 63 Rikers high school graduates exchanged their ...

Michael Nieves, 40, was awaiting trial on Rikers Island when he tried to kill himself in 2022. The staff response to his ...

A South Jersey man was charged with first-degree murder after police say he shot and killed a man before fleeing to New York ...

Matthew Lucas, 24, of Gloucester Township, was charged with first-degree murder and second-degree weapons offenses in the ...

Nolveiro Vera Ordonez was hauled into court on theft charges and pleaded to be sent to jail while ICE agents waited outside ...

Are you a fan of the Department of Homeland Security opening its new Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida ...

Families and criminal justice advocates have long urged jail officials to notify them about deaths and other emergencies in ...

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

Orlando pastor Timothy Johnson is attracting national recognition for his initiative “Fatherless No More,” which supports men ...

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

The Bronx district attorney’s office will not bring charges against a Queens lawyer who was publicly accused by correctional ...

A yellow cab driver is speaking out from his hospital bed after being shot by a passenger allegedly enraged over a $40 fare.