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 ...

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

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.

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.

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

The new attorney general delivered heated remarks announcing a new lawsuit against New York state and top officials, claiming they were resisting federal efforts to enforce the nation's immigration ...

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 ...

On March 22, 51-year-old Roy Savage died in Department of Correction custody at Bellevue Hospital while receiving ongoing medical care for an unspecified long-term illness. He was the third ...