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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The vast majority of people detained at Rikers are waiting for their day in court and have not been convicted of any crime.

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

Rikers Island is a century-old jail complex on an island sandwiched between the Bronx and Queens in New York City. It’s home to 10 city jails, where you will find violence, chaos, and even death. This ...