The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of alleged drug-soaked papers after lab tests showed there were no ...

The wrongful-death lawsuit against the two men comes after the inmates were awarded a combined $367,500 from New York City as ...

"I fear for my kids when I drop them off at school. Our schools aren't safe and our kids aren't safe," rapper writes ...

The beleaguered jail has been under the supervision of a federal monitor since 2015 because of pervasive problems.

As the city’s public defender landscape heads toward a potential crisis, the city this week announced plans to create a new ...

The man who allegedly pepper sprayed a baby and her mother on the subway was still locked up on Rikers Island as of Monday afternoon, according to online records.Edward Vargas, ...

Mayor Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and his ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

Mayor Eric Adams “violated” the law when he blocked the City Council’s ban on solitary confinement in Big Apple prisons, a ...

Health officials told Lucy’s owners that she would have to leave the city. After the family, the neighborhood and its ...

Two prisoners died just over an hour apart Friday — one at Rikers Island, and one after a medical emergency on a bus en route ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...