The beleaguered jail has been under the supervision of a federal monitor since 2015 because of pervasive problems.

From June 4-15, the 24th annual Tribeca Film festival played host to a catalogue of some of the year’s most anticipated ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center barge in Hunts Point—which previously housed overflow population from Rikers Island jails—will be removed, and the area ...

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 ...

A federal judge in New York has taken the extraordinary step of seizing control of the city’s the troubled Rikers Island jail complex, one of the nation’s largest and most famous jails which ...

A federal judge on Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be run by an official who reports directly to the court.

A federal judge on Tuesday said she is taking control of New York's troubled Rikers Island jail complex away from city officials and appointing an independent official to oversee it, citing a ...

The Eric Adams administration is permitting ICE to return to Rikers Island to help carry out criminal investigations into organized violence and migrant gangs like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua.

In 1971, Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) received her first public art commission. New York City offered the late artist a $3,000 grant to paint a mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island.

A new documentary by Catherine Gund tracks the loss, ... the prison lives up to its reputation as filthy, violent and corrupt. ... Rikers Island, a risky place for art of any value, says ...

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers Island prison.

Her mother, philanthropist Agnes Gund, raised $100 million to end mass incarceration after watching the documentary “13th.” “Paint Me a Road Out of Here” premieres at the Film Forum on ...