The deaths were the first in 2025 to be connected to the Rikers Island jail complex, which may be taken over by a ...

The man had a medical emergency while in a holding area at Manhattan court, according to the city Department of Correction ...

Career criminal Sundance Oliver was already dubbed “a one-man crime wave” while he was on the streets of the Big Apple — and ...

A Rikers Island inmate died while in custody on Monday, marking the second in-custody death of 2025, less than a week after ...

Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...

By Santul Nerkar The deaths were the first in 2025 to be connected to the Rikers Island jail complex ... has not officially entered the New York City mayoral race. But he has spent months laying ...

New York City’s Rikers Island jail spirals into chaos amid pandemic New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has been troubled by years of neglect and now has spiraled into turmoil during ...

The DOJ is seeking to dismiss its criminal case against Adams, citing the need for his cooperation on Trump immigration ...

While the Democratic Party’s most high-profile personalities have been vocal in decrying President Donald Trump’s policy advances, their less-publicized activity ...

The department last went to 12-hour tours during the 2021 and 2022 staffing crisis when hundreds of officers went sick following the COVID pandemic.

Under a provision of the revised contract carried over from the original signed during the pandemic, the commissary vendor, ...