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

Albay County Sheriff Craig Apple said the Legislature needs to reevaluate the solitary confinement law because it is making prisons more dangerous. The HALT legislation limits the amount of time that ...

Ernest Delma was still facing charges for slugging an NYPD cop in the Bronx when he allegedly punched a woman in Times Square ...

The decision is the latest in President Trump’s sweeping crackdown on immigrants, including people whom the Biden ...

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

Activists rally to demand Adams' removal, after a 34th death in custody on his watch. The mayor wants to bring ICE officers ...

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

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

NYC correction officer John Jeff, 28, was fatally shot near the corner of Defoe St. and Ridgedale St. in Springfield Gardens ...

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

The city Department of Correction said it was still investigating the death and had no further details on how the person died ...

Queens DA Melinda Katz released surveillance video of the cold case murder of an off-duty Rikers Island correction officer in ...