It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle of the East ...

stopping traffic as he heads to the gate leading to the bridge off Rikers Island. Jasmin worked in the Transportation Division on Rikers. At least one civilian car leaving the island is pulled to ...

A former New York City Department of Correction officer has pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs and other contraband into the Rikers Island jail complex in exchange for bribes, according to the U.S ...

"Every day I'm at Rikers Island it's a mystery to me how I'm still walking," Weinstein told the court while seated in a wheelchair. "I'm asking and begging you, your honor, I can't hold on anymore.

That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein begged a Manhattan judge Wednesday to move up his new sex assault trial because he “can’t hold on anymore” holed up on Rikers Island.

When Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the parties in the Rikers Island litigation to come to a joint agreement on the potential structure and powers of a federal receiver tasked ...