U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered that an independent manager be appointed to oversee the notorious jail complex ...

Ten years after Kalief Browder’s death by suicide, his story lingers as a reminder of both the horrors of New York City’s ...

Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has seized control of the facility from New York City and placed it under the ...

Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain took control of New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on Tuesday and appointed an ...

A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment of an independent manager to ...

A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report directly to her, taking control of the troubled complex away from the city.

Eyewitness News has investigated the violence, the staffing levels, even the sexual abuse allegations inside Rikers Island.

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy spoke with Marcia Kramer on this week's episode ...

A federal judge on Tuesday said she is taking control of New York's troubled Rikers Island jail complex away from city ...

As courts buckle under hundreds of thousands of unresolved cases, a quiet fight is erupting in Albany over how — and where — ...

Former NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik, “America’s Cop,” who helped make New York the safest big city in America and led the ...

Meir, the former top executive of New York City real estate development firm HFZ Capital Group, was ordered back to jail ...