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

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

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

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.

The judicial appointment of an outside authority to temporarily run Rikers Island offers a rare opportunity to transform one ...

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

So when it came time to name the jail’s new siddur — perhaps the first ever Jewish prayer book compiled expressly for use in ...

A person who is unhoused before incarceration is no less vulnerable after release. But our current policy treats time in jail ...

The departure of New York City's Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Molina provides a much-needed opportunity for fresh thinking on how to combat over-crowding at Rikers Island. REUTERS ...

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… ...