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 ...

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

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

One of the ironies of Nunez’s story, and something that still rankles him, is he received just $75,000 in a settlement in ...

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

The Correction Department said Bernardo Caceres’s papers tested positive for THC, a cannabinoid. Then officials tested the ...

Two court rulings were handed down this week about restrictions on solitary confinement in correctional facilities in New ...

A former jail on a South Bronx barge is slated to be dismantled to make way for the planned Hunts Point Marine Terminal.

Flames, a 51-year-old Brooklyn-based nonprofit basketball program founded by a retired Wall Street attorney, has been ...

Authorities were investigating the deaths of two men, including one held in jail despite facing misdemeanor charges, in New York City Department of Correction custody Friday, correction sources ...