NYC announces a 20-year plan to enhance accessibility and resilience of Hart Island, the city's public cemetery.

The Hart Island Concept Plan outlines a series of capital projects to better equip the island for burials while improving ...

A man once held in the same jail cell as Jeffrey Epstein argued that there is “just no way” the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender died by suicide in 2019.  “I spent seven months on ...

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.

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

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.

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

"For years, the New York City Department of Correction has failed to follow federal court orders to enact meaningful reforms, allowing violence, disorder, and systemic dysfunction to persist in ...

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 ...