Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council announced a budget deal that includes bringing Sunday service to some library ...

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

We explore the undeniable and devastating impact of incarceration on mental health through a young man’s self-described ...

Luis Bernier has languished on Rikers Island since March 12 because he can’t get transferred to prison due to the ripples ...

Mayor Eric Adams didn’t follow the proper procedures when he declared a state of emergency and blocked a local law ...

A Manhattan judge on Monday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from going around a municipal law banning solitary confinement in city prisons, including Rikers Island.

Health officials told Lucy’s owners that she would have to leave the city. After the family, the neighborhood and its ...

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

Mayor Eric Adams illegally declared a state of emergency in the city’s jails in an effort to skirt around implementing a law ...

A former jail on a South Bronx barge is slated to be dismantled to make way for the planned Hunts Point Marine Terminal.

What You Need To Know A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager This past November, the same judge found the ...