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

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

Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

Two prisoners died just over an hour apart Friday — one at Rikers Island, and one after a medical emergency on a bus en route ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

As the city’s public defender landscape heads toward a potential crisis, the city this week announced plans to create a new ...

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

A judge ruled that NYC Mayor Adams improperly used emergency powers to block a ban on solitary confinement in city jails, ...

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.