The judicial appointment of an outside authority to temporarily run Rikers Island offers a rare opportunity to transform one ...

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.

Michael Nieves, 40, was awaiting trial on Rikers Island when he tried to kill himself in 2022. The staff response to his suicide drew a harsh rebuke from the New York State attorney general and ...

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.

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.

RIKERS ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) – A court hearing held in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday aimed to determine whether ICE and other federal agencies can set up shop on Rikers Island. A state judge in ...