Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has ...

With the court orders that allowed the city to seal illicit cannabis stores starting to expire, questions remain about ...

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

A federal judge took the control of Rikers Island out of New York City’s hands in a hearing.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rikers Island will be taken out of city control, and an outside official will report directly to a federal judge. The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, ruled the remediation manager will ...

A federal judge on Tuesday stripped New York City of its control over Rikers Island jail, which will now effectively be run ...

A federal judge finally acknowledged that New York City won't fix the constitutional crisis at Rikers on its own, but the ...

Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued a stunning ruling that effectively places Rikers Island under the control of the court. The infamously dangerous jail complex houses around 7,000 […] ...

Immigrants living in New York who were unlawfully held on Rikers Island because federal immigration agents asked the city to ...

The collective proposed a series of works for the controversial Borough-Based Jails project, which has received pushback from ...

With early voting in the June primary just a month away, voters will soon rank their top five choices for who they want to be the next mayor of New York City. THE CITY, in partnership with Gothamist, ...

Forever is Mara Brock Akil’s reimagining of the Judy Blume novel; Akil’s centers around two Black teens in Los Angeles.