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 ...

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

An NYPD 911 operator was helping to dispatch drugs to Rikers Island as she fielded emergency calls — conspiring with her convicted-killer boyfriend and two other suspected murderers to sneak ...

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 ...

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

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

A federal judge chose an ex-CIA officer and Vermont corrections commissioner to lead operations at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex – wresting control away from city government. Nicholas Deml, ...

In October 2024, a Rikers Island social worker came forward with a bombshell accusation: officers were routinely isolating ...

After more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail ...

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 ...

The cause of death for Layleen Cubilette-Polanco, a 27-year-old trans woman who was jailed at Rikers Island, was confirmed on Tuesday to be the result of a medical condition that causes seizures.