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

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

Nearly 200 years ago, Richard Riker — a powerful judge whose family the island is named after — was at the center of a ...

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

A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...

A 37-year-old man died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, in the first death in the system in 2025, according ...

A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...

As her fellow correction officers applauded, Shamika Mitchell, 37, walked out of the hospital after six days spent recovering ...

Mayor Adams seeks to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents back onto Rikers Island, he said in a statement ...

According to the amicus brief, the DOC has failed to address the chronic violence, mismanagement, and human rights abuses at ...

Corrections staff, officers and family gathered Friday on Rikers Island to celebrate the legacy of a longtime Department of Corrections (DOC) employee who ...

President Trump’s “border czar” on Sunday pushed back on allegations that prosecutors were ordered to dismiss charges against ...