The city's latest budget includes funds to grow the number of apartments in the Justice-Involved Supportive Housing program ...

The one-of-a-kind siddur features bright colors, bold text and an amalgam of Hebrew, English, Russian and Ladino prayers, as ...

Hundreds of mentally ill people are routinely trapped on Rikers Island for months at a time without court-ordered treatment ...

The state consistently violates judicial orders by leaving detainees in need of psychiatric treatment ahead of their trial ...

The city is piloting a program that gives Rikers Island detainees municipal IDs in the hopes that it eases their transition ...

Bitcoin torture suspect John Woeltz was freed on $1 million bond after two months in custody for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian crypto trader.

Before leaving office, Mayor Michael Bloomberg had proposed a state-of-the-art jail to replace the old Rikers Island complex, but Mayor Bill de Blasio trashed that plan, then washed his hands of ...

A teenager accused of repeatedly taking city subway trains on high-speed joyrides will have to spend more than a month on ...

Even before it was a prison, Rikers Island was home to crooks. Magistrate Richard Riker, owner of the island in the early 1800s, was a descendant of the German-Dutch von Rycken family, which had he… ...

By CBS New York Team Updated on: November 18, 2023 / 7:46 PM EST / CBS New York ... NEW YORK -- A rally was held at Washington Square Park on Saturday for inmates who have died on Rikers Island.

Intelligencer investigations June 28, 2015 9:00 p.m. Inside Rikers Island, Through the Eyes of the People Who Live and Work There By Maurice Chammah ...