Bianna Golodryga speaks with Pastor Tim Johnson, founder of the Fatherless No More initiative, about his new Oscar qualifying ...

The City Council this week unanimously passed a bill that would require the Department of Correction to be more transparent ...

A new report by the Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College warns that Rikers Island has become the largest mental ...

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city’s criminal justice system. The city is ...

Andrew Cuomo has finally come out for the only sane position on the troubled Rikers Island jail complex: Rebuild it, don’t replace it with smaller, more costly borough ones. Cuomo had previously ...

Andrew Cuomo grabbed the spotlight in the New York City mayor's race on Wednesday by calling for the scrapping of the city's plan to close Rikers Island. The former governor suggested building a ...

Edwin Ramos was hours away from freedom. Ramos, 38, was set to plead guilty to an attempted burglary charge at a hearing in ...

Three correction officers have been suspended following the death of a man incarcerated at New York City's troubled Rikers Island, jail officials said. Officers found Ardit Billa, 29, unresponsive in ...

Corey Henry receives a 5-year sentence for stabbing fellow inmates at Rikers Island, pleading guilty to Assault and Attempted Murder.

The death is the 13th jail-related death in 2025, the most since 2022, the first year of the Adams administration, when there ...

A 38-year-old man on Rikers Island became the 13th person this year to die in Department of Correction custody, agency officials announced on Friday.