In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 ...

The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission appointed by the City Council ...

(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city’s Rikers Island jail following a meeting Thursday ...

A former prison guard pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three inmates in Hawaii, federal officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A 47-year-old former prison guard pleaded guilty to sexually ...

Two teenage boys who police say are responsible for vandalizing a Mercer Island middle school with ... or not charges would be filed. Instead of jail time, KCPAO said the juveniles were ...

By Hurubie Meko A federal judge overseeing the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City is weighing two distinct proposals on how to fix the city’s troubled and violent lockups. For nearly a ...

He’s a terror on the streets and a nightmare behind bars. Sundance Oliver, 30, a Brooklyn gangbanger locked up on murder charges for allegedly killing two people ...

He was barely a teenager when he was sent to Rikers Island to fight his case ... he's falling back on the advice Salaam gave him in prison. "You just got to keep walking. You gotta keep moving ...

A Hawaii man who spent 30 years in prison for a murder he long denied ... of Timothy Blaisdell during a drug deal robbery on the island of Maui. Cordeiro's first trial ended in a hung jury ...

According to the amicus brief, the DOC has failed to address the chronic violence, mismanagement, and human rights abuses at Rikers Island, despite nearly a decade of federal monitoring, noting the ...

In Malone, N.Y., a town of 12,000 with three state prisons 20 miles from the Canadian border, the five-day-old wildcat strike by prison guards ... officers on Rikers Island, by comparison, never ...