The judicial appointment of an outside authority to temporarily run Rikers Island offers a rare opportunity to transform one of the nation’s most troubled jails. But durable reform depends ultimately ...

In May, a federal judge appointed a remediation manager to overhaul the jail — which has seen its population grow to more than 7,000 from about 4,000 in 2020.

The New York Times has obtained video of the 2022 death of Michael Nieves, a mentally ill detainee who mortally wounded himself on Rikers Island.

A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City Department of Correction — a day after his attorney said he asked the ...

The city is required by law to close Rikers Island by 2027 and replace it with four smaller borough-based jails, but it appears certain to blow past that deadline.

Two prisoners died just over an hour apart Friday — one at Rikers Island, and one after a medical emergency on a bus en route to the facility — city correction officials said. The deaths ...

A judge has blocked Mayor Eric Adams from letting federal immigration authorities reopen an office at Rikers Island.

A judge ordered Rikers into receivership, citing ongoing violence. A federal monitor sees some progress, but deep reforms are still needed.

Eyewitness News has investigated the violence, the staffing levels, even the sexual abuse allegations inside Rikers Island. Now, we're getting an exclusive look at some of the living conditions ...

The Data Collaborative for Justice report highlights the need for judges to reduce pretrial detentions in New York Jails, as 85% of inmates are held pretrial, and proposes reforms to improve the ...

As a federal judge moves forward with her plan to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island, her longtime federal monitor said last week in a new report that while the city’s management of the ...