Several bills are being floated as part of a potential package of legislation that will only move forward if Democrats have ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III and state lawmakers may have ...

A New York corrections officer admitted in court that he cleaned up blood from the fatal beating of an inmate in an attempt ...

New York City's troubled jail system will be put under the watch of an independent monitor after a federal judge seized ...

A federal judge in New York has taken the extraordinary step of seizing control of the city’s troubled Rikers Island jail ...

Legislation passed by the New York City Council in 2019 requires the closure of Rikers Island prison by 2027 and new jails to replace it.

A federal judge has ordered an outside official to take over control of much of New York City's jail system after local ...

Laura Taylor Swain, a federal judge, seized control of New York City’s lockups, which have been rife with violence and ...

Rikers Island, which has long drawn ire over its conditions, won't be within New York City's purview during the transition.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that an independent outside official will take control of Rikers Island from New York City in a sweeping ruling aimed at fixing years of violence and deteriorating ...

Swain issued the order in Nunez v. City of New York, a 13-year-old class-action suit that the Legal Aid Society and the law ...