He is among six officials and inmates who helped supply a "dangerous contraband market" at the New York City jail.

Despite assurances from Mayor Eric Adams that Rikers Island would finally open its doors to Immigration and Customs ...

The fallout from the 22-day strike by state correction officers which ended Monday has put more than 300 people awaiting ...

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

Lefty Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer is pushing the city to feed jailbirds “farm-to-table” meals, like ones served up at ...

Harvey Weinstein is due back in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday ahead of his retrial, which is scheduled to start in just ...

Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo retrial next month in Manhattan will largely be an abridged version of the original with one big ...

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

ICONIC Jamaican singer-songwriter Cocoa Tea, best known for his 90s hit song Riker’s Island, has died aged 65. The reggae ...

Top officials at the Department of Correction said Friday that the mayor’s office has yet to speak with them about the ...

Nearly 200 years ago, Richard Riker — a powerful judge whose family the island is named after — was at the center of a ...

The decision to put Weinstein on the stand would be unusual in such a high-profile case, but, “Harvey is an unusual guy,” ...