As a judge considers appointing a receiver to oversee the jails, there are two very different plans for how that would work.

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

Career criminal Sundance Oliver was already dubbed “a one-man crime wave” while he was on the streets of the Big Apple — and ...

Eric Adams and three other "sanctuary city" mayors are set to testify Wednesday at a Republican-led Congressional hearing ...

The Republicans who lead the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have long criticized such laws, as has U.S.

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

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 26-year-old man is accused of beating a victim and stealing his lunchbox in a robbery in ...

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

The man had a medical emergency while in a holding area at Manhattan court, according to the city Department of Correction ...

A Rikers Island inmate died while in custody on Monday, marking the second in-custody death of 2025, less than a week after ...

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

A 37-year-old man died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, in the first death in the system in 2025, according ...