La La Anthony opens up about the impact of her prison reform initiative, the ThreeSixty Program at New York City's notorious ...

A Rikers Island officer, an inmate, and the inmate's wife are charged with smuggling contraband into the jail, including ...

Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has quietly made it harder for federal agents to monitor Tren de Aragua and other brutal gangs in Rikers Island. Mamdani revoked Executive Order 50 on his first day in ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani put New York City’s troubled jail system on the clock to end solitary confinement — issuing yet another executive order to unravel his predecessor’s actions. Mamdani signed an ...

Mayor Mamdani is now running the city, but soon he and the Department of Correction will not be running Rikers Island, the ...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an order to end solitary confinement on Rikers Island, mandating a plan for compliance with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani has ordered city corrections officials to come up with a plan to bring NYC jails into compliance ...

An inmate at Rikers Island died early Sunday morning after being found unwell in his cell marking the 14th death at the jail complex this year, New York City Department of Correction officials said.

The land Rikers Island was built on may never again house a new jail. Ahead of a vote this month on the approval of a plan to close Rikers, the City Council will submit a new proposal to ban the ...

The family of a 20-year-old man who died of appendicitis in Rikers Island custody last year is suing the city and the ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they have intense discussions about literature.

A 32-year-old detainee died on Rikers Island Sunday, marking the 14th death in New York City jails this year. Aramis Furse died after a city correction officer noticed he “appeared unwell” in his cell ...