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

A suit accuses New York State’s mental health system of delaying treatment to restore people to competency, leaving them to ...

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

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

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, joined by fellow councilmembers and mental health advocates, celebrated on Monday the ...

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

Eventually, I was able to get B. transferred to the PACE unit, which offers the highest level of mental health care on Rikers. He was terrified when he came in, asking me frantically if a tag ...

How the program operates The Rikers Island Doula Program represents a collaborative effort between the Caribbean Women’s Health Association and New York City’s Department of Corrections.

The impending reforms come amid heightened scrutiny of Rikers, a 10-facility jail complex on a 400-acre island near LaGuardia Airport that holds the vast majority of the roughly 11,500 daily ...

Judge appoints remediation manager to run NYC's Rikers Island jail complex After years of litigation, a federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report directly ...