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

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

The beleaguered jail has been under the supervision of a federal monitor since 2015 because of pervasive problems.

In “Blind Spots,” the 2025 memoir by South Florida resident Gregory J. Blotnick, a young financier chronicles his rise ...

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 ...

We explore the undeniable and devastating impact of incarceration on mental health through a young man’s self-described ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 30-year-old man faces hate crime charges after a terrifying ordeal where he allegedly drove his car ...