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.

NYC Council is set to pass a bill for swift disclosure of detainee deaths at Rikers Island, aiming to increase transparency and address secrecy concerns.

Families and criminal justice advocates have long urged jail officials to notify them about deaths and other emergencies in ...

Department of Correction officials abruptly stopped notifying the media when someone died in city custody. That sparked a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Four former high-ranking NYPD officials allege in a series of lawsuits that Mayor Eric Adams and his ...

The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and determination of young detainees, awaiting their cases to be adjudicated by the ...

Inmates spent Wednesday night in the facility's gymnasium and would return their unit Thursday, a spokesperson said.

A judge granted a preliminary injunction against state prisons employing solitary confinement despite banning it last Wednesday, July 2.

A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...

Flames basketball, a primarily Brooklyn-based youth basketball nonprofit, paid a visit to Queensboro Correctional Facility in ...

Despite a growing number of detainees, the city’s jail oversight board rejected a request to expand dorm capacity — leaving ...

Arcadia Cognerati, the leading authority in Human Behavior Pattern Recognition & Analysis (HBPR&A), today announced the ...