A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that gave him a painful, five-day erection — and ignoring his ...

Prosecutors said the defendant — listed in jail records at 5-feet-8 inches-tall and weighing 180 pounds — grabbed a kitchen ...

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

The city is a mess,” said Audrey Harkins, a feisty Battery Park City resident who stands 4-foot-11 and weighs 115 pounds ...

Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark ...

A New York Supreme Court judge has blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams from going ahead with his plan to allow ICE to reopen an office at the Rikers Island jail complex. Judge Mary Rosado sided ...

A judge has blocked New York City’s mayor from letting federal immigration authorities reopen an office at the city’s main ...

The decision is a blow to Mayor Eric Adams, who sought to help the Trump administration expand its immigration crackdown.

There’s more trouble brewing for an embattled Queens public defender office, as a lawyer there was busted for passing drugs to an incarcerated client just days after the group’s founder was charged ...

A public defender with a Queens nonprofit mired in controversy was hauled off in handcuffs after he was caught smuggling 130 sheets of suspected THC-soaked paper into a jail on Rikers Island, ...

A judge has declared a mistrial on the third-degree rape count in Harvey Weinstein’s ongoing sexual assault trial, after ...

Mr. Weinstein, the former Hollywood mogul, was convicted on one sexual assault charge and acquitted on another. The jury ...