The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle ...

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport ...

Alec Tabak/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Harvey Weinstein begged a Manhattan judge ...

For New Yorkers seeking an end to generations of violence, dysfunction and racially disparate incarceration at Rikers Island, last year brought a glimmer ... ways that better assure everyone’s safety.

This exceptional live performance and conversation for Rikers Island, New York inmates was recorded on October 15th, 2024 and features tracks "Road I Came", "Troubadour of Troubled Souls", "Savior ...

saying he isn’t sure he will live until the spring while incarcerated in the “hell hole” that is the New York City jail complex. “Every day I’m at Rikers Island it’s a mystery to me ...