The cost of replacing the crumbling jail complex on Rikers Island by building borough-based jails across the city has ...

Fewer than one in five inmate complaints on Rikers Island over the last four years ever saw any resolution, including ...

Foster, 21, allegedly attacked a Rikers corrections officer even after she doused him with pepper spray to defend herself ...

Joining grassroots efforts to alleviate the notoriously brutal conditions at NY State's largest jail is a group from the UWS ...

Despite seeing improvements during a recent visit to Rikers Island, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards says he ...

A Rikers Island inmate has been indicted on charges of second-degree Assault and other offenses after allegedly attacking a ...

My first visit to Rikers Island took place in 1992, when I participated in a small, day-long tour. It was an eye-opening ...

Pioneering Black feminist artist Dindga McCannon just unveiled her first mural for a correctional facility at New York's ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.— Two correction officers on Rikers Island were left bloodied Sunday in separate incidents, the New York ...

An anime-loving Rikers Island correction officer testified Thursday that he smuggled drug-soaked issues of the hyper-popular ...

The City of New York will pay more than $28 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a woman whose grandson was ...

Three former correction officers, a contractor and a program counselor were charged in Manhattan Federal Court for smuggling ...