An NYPD 911 operator was dispatching drugs to Rikers Island as she fielded emergency calls — conspiring with her ...

She’s not dashing to get out of Rikers. Accused serial dine-and-dash diva Pei Chung on Wednesday refused to leave her jail ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

Stanley Richards, the new DOC commissioner, sat down with the Eagle to discuss the critical moment the city, the DOC and its jails are in, as well as his philosophical approach to leading the ...

More than two years after city jail officials cut off nonprofit-led social services at Rikers Island, several organizations ...

Rikers Island's new remediation manager, who was named on Tuesday, will have authority even beyond that of the city’s correction commissioner to push forward reforms — in an appointment that marks one ...

A federal judge chose an ex-CIA officer and Vermont corrections commissioner to lead operations at the troubled Rikers Island ...

Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.

After finding the city in contempt of 18 court orders to reduce violence and the use of excessive force on Rikers Island in ...

The notoriously violent Rikers is supposed to close in 2027 and be replaced with four smaller jails dispersed across the city ...

Leadership of the notoriously problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex has officially fallen into federal hands with the anticipated appointment of an independent administrator, officials said ...

It’s official. After years of court battles, debate, and continued concerns about violence and excessive force plaguing the troubled jails system, a federal judge stripped New York City of its control ...