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 USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Shelves of books and reams of media exposés have revealed the inhumanity of American jails, prisons, and immigration detention ...

After NYC Department of Correction (DOC) confirmed on Saturday, June 21, that two additional people have died on or in ...

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 ...

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 ...

As it turns out, Dylan, originally from Venezuela, was part of the massive wave of over 210,000 plus migrants that were ...

A 22-year-old man was arrested while already in prison in connection with a gas station burglary that took place in ...

ICE wants an office inside NYC’s notorious Rikers Island jail. A judge might end those hopes. New York City Mayor Eric Adams crafted a ‘corrupt bargain’ with Trump to let federal agents ...