Unlike his two predecessors, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has no hope of avoiding a hard time with the Rikers Island jails.

A Rikers Island officer, an inmate, and the inmate's wife are charged with smuggling contraband into the jail, including ...

Mayor Mamdani is now running the city, but soon he and the Department of Correction will not be running Rikers Island, the ...

The family of a 20-year-old man who died of appendicitis in Rikers Island custody last year is suing the city and the ...

A Department of Corrections officer was indicted Wednesday for smuggling marijuana and tobacco into a Rikers Island jail, in ...

Aramis Furse, 32, was found unresponsive in his jail cell in December. A federal monitor says guards routinely fail to tour ...

The report lands at what the monitor describes as a “critical and uncertain” moment for the jail and Department of Correction ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city must develop a plan that implements a law banning prolonged solitary confinement in city ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani directed city agencies to make plans to comply with rules governing health and safety at the facilities, ...

We will work closely with the federal monitor and the parties to put the City back on track to end solitary confinement as ...

When a federal judge announced last May that she would appoint an independent “remediation manager” to impose long-delayed ...

This year, seven large illuminated menorahs and five inflatable menorahs stood across Rikers Island, visible as you approach ...