Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that, if elected New York City mayor, he would begin relocating people with serious ...

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 ...

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

Despite two hearings, Meir’s recent judge-ordered return to Rikers remains a mystery. And his new attorney, Matthew Galluzzo, ...

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

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

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 ...

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