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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

A Brooklyn man, locked up at Rikers Island on murder charges, continues to be violent. Sundance Oliver, 30, allegedly killed ...