The downward spiral of one inmate, Markus Johnson, shows the larger failures of the nation’s prisons to care for the mentally ...

Many of the bands visiting Jazz Fest from Colombia have blended traditional sounds, like salsa and cumbia, with contemporary, ...

Wayne has gone on the record several times to confirm this, telling the story of how he was held in Rikers Island when Drake visited him and admitted what he did. In a TMZ report from 2015, Wayne was ...

The captain’s body camera caught on fire Friday, prompting unions to ask for a full safety review, officials said.

The city Department of Correction temporarily pulled almost 3,500 body-worn cameras after one caught fire and injured a ...

A Department of Correction captain is recovering after her body-worn camera caught fire at Rikers Island, prompting immediate ...

The Staten Island District Attorney’s office last week said Joseph Riccardi agreed to an adjournment contemplating dismissal, ...

Patrick Kennedy shared his personal and family challenges with mental illness and addiction in his bestselling memoir “A ...

In one recent video, a 30-year-old single mom Afrika Owes, who spent time in prison before going to Fordham Law School, gets the best news ever when she checks her bar exam results online: She passed ...

It appears that the image was created using an actual New York Post story about disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein being ...

The D.C. Department of Corrections’ use of isolation is ineffective and harmful, especially for people experiencing suicidal ...

Both sponsored by City Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore), the pieces of legislation require the FDNY to provide body armor, along with self-defense and de-escalation train ...