Mayor Mamdani last Thursday unveiled the city’s plan to improve conditions on Rikers Island — by undoing years of executive orders that suspended certain rules there amid a declared state ...

We continue to live with racial disparities in our city, despite our reputation for progressivism. Rikers Island stands as a glaring example.

Claps rang out as Rock Island School Board member Andrea Gilman finished using her board time to speak about concerns ...

Nelson Asofa-Solomona has hit back at Matt Lodge as the two giant enforcers look to be on a violent collision course.

For New York City’s mayor, the hard part isn’t deciding whether or not to shut down Rikers, but figuring out how to do it ...

Episode 14, called "Cabinet meeting," started with Big Lex finally getting her final round with Summer, dominating the fight and leaving Summer's face heavily swollen, bloody and messed up, with her ...

On a normal Wednesday morning, a correction officer at Rikers Island was making his routine rounds when he felt what he later described as “sandpaper” scrape across his face. It was not sandpaper but ...

Last month, a federal monitor overseeing the city’s Department of Correction said the agency remains mired in the same ...

Welcome to Riker's Island in New York City, a place where detainees await their trials. Although it's technically a jail, inmates often spend more than a few days here. Some spend weeks, others years.

Department of Correction Commissioner Stanely Richards, the first formerly incarcerated person in the role, sits down with ...

The City Council on Thursday overrode a mayoral veto of a bill that would explicitly bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from operating an office on any land owned by the city’s Department ...

After seven months of reviewing candidates, a federal judge overseeing Rikers Island announced the appointment of Nicholas Deml, a former CIA officer, as the “remediation manager” who will have ...