Veo Kelly has been held without bail on Rikers Island awaiting trial for attacking Samyia and Sanyia Spain, 19.

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

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

Late last month, city Correction Department officials asked the jail oversight board to expand bed capacity in certain Rikers ...

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

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

The Queens public defender arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-laced papers to a Rikers Island inmate has been ...

One of the ironies of Nunez’s story, and something that still rankles him, is he received just $75,000 in a settlement in ...

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

The wrongful-death lawsuit against the two men comes after the inmates were awarded a combined $367,500 from New York City as ...