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 ...

Before the mayor met with Tom Homan Thursday to discuss immigration enforcement, the City Council’s Common Sense Caucus had ...

If a federal judge follows through with her threat to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island, she should make sure ...

Border Czar Tom Homan, tapped by Donald Trump to oversee border security, met with members of NYC Council's Common Sense ...

By Priya Krishna Photographs by Brittainy Newman Priya Krishna and Brittainy Newman twice visited Rikers Island, where they were granted extensive access to a kitchen, its cooks and the detainees ...

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 ...

Having long fought against the appointment of an independent monitor to reform Rikers Island, the Adams administration has presented a plan for a different entity to take charge of the troubled jails ...

A picture she made in 1971 caused a minor scandal—minor for anyone but the artist and the growing number of women prisoners on Rikers Island, the main holding site in New York City for those ...

The female Department of Correction officer slugged by a man held on Rikers Island for also sucker-punching an MTA station agent suffered a fractured eye socket and remains in the hospital ...

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, causing injuries severe enough to require emergency surgery, according to ...