Even in a place like Rikers Island, light can break through. This year’s pre-Shavuos celebration transformed the prison into ...

The Interborough Express, a rail line connecting Brooklyn and Queens, could spur the building of tens of thousands of homes.

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the sixth and seventh people to die in or immediately after New York Department of ...

Taveon Hargrove was extradited from Virginia and now faces attempted murder charges for a cowardly attack on an off-duty NYPD ...

We asked the leading candidates 18 questions about policy, politics and experience. Here's how the likely Democratic nominee ...

New York State Assemblymember and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani declared victory in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary Tuesday night after building on ...

A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that gave him a painful, five-day erection — and ignoring his ...

Prosecutors said the defendant — listed in jail records at 5-feet-8 inches-tall and weighing 180 pounds — grabbed a kitchen ...

"We need a mayor who knows that in a city committed to seeing all of us thrive, there is no place for Rikers Island." ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

The USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Shelves of books and reams of media exposés have revealed the inhumanity of American jails, prisons, and immigration detention ...

A new Board of Correction report has backed up allegations detailed in October by the Daily News — that jail staff are ...