A New York state prison was placed on lockdown after inmates took over and injured three guards, just days after staffing ...

A Rikers Island correction officer suffered bleeding on the brain and underwent emergency surgery after she was struck in the ...

Robert Ray, who allegedly punched Correction Officer Shamika Mitchell in the face on Rikers Island, is in jail for allegedly punching an MTA station agent, also a woman, in the face.

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

Adams has suggested without proof that the charges were retribution for his criticism of the Biden administration’s handling ...

Mayor Adams believes Lynelle Maginley-Liddie is the best person to oversee Rikers' jails. Maginley-Liddie is the current Department of Correction Commissioner.

New video evidence has reinvigorated the search for the murderer of John Jeff, an off-duty NYC correction officer shot in 2020, with a $30,000 reward for information.

The lockdown took place at Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County, with the incident beginning around 1 a.m.

New York’s Department of Corrections has opened a wellness center for guards on Rikers — including a “serenity room,” a gym and business center — in an ongoing push to help COs live more ...

including expanding a whistleblower hotline and devoting $2 million to expand the department’s partnership with the Correctional Association of New York, an independent organization authorized ...

Adams has spent time with President Donald Trump recently, including meeting with him in South Florida and attending his ...