Veo Kelly has been held without bail on Rikers Island awaiting trial for attacking Samyia and Sanyia Spain, 19.

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

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 ...

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

Late last month, city Correction Department officials asked the jail oversight board to expand bed capacity in certain Rikers ...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams criticizes rival Mamdani's affordability proposals, contrasting their backgrounds and socialist policies ...

The chief medical officer for Rikers Island says the city can’t safely manage the jail, asks the Council to request state or federal assistance.

The Bronx district attorney’s office will not bring charges against a Queens lawyer who was publicly accused by correctional ...

In “Blind Spots,” the 2025 memoir by South Florida resident Gregory J. Blotnick, a young financier chronicles his rise ...

We explore the undeniable and devastating impact of incarceration on mental health through a young man’s self-described ...

Flavor Flav has penned an op-ed urging lawmakers to pass a total ban on firearms: "No civilian needs to possess semi-automatic weapons." ...