If Mamdani succeeds in closing Rikers Island, compulsory decarceration would become a permanent feature of the city’s ...

The long-delayed opening of the 104-bed unit comes with the decommissioning of the North Infirmary Command, the jail ...

The city on Wednesday will welcome patients to a long-delayed jail ward at Bellevue Hospital, finally putting to use a ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that detainees at Rikers Island with complicated medical needs will be transferred to a Manhattan hospital to get access to speciality care.

A federal judge has selected Nicholas Deml, the former head of Vermont’s prison system, to take control of Rikers Island. Deml, who is also a former C.I.A. officer, has been named the new “Nunez ...

A new unit is opening at Bellevue Hospital to house Rikers Island detainees with serious medical needs, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday. The mayor said the $241 million facility will help ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking a step closer to closing the Rikers Correctional Facility. The city's first outposted ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced the opening of a new, quarter billion hospital unit for city inmates complete with ...

Harvey Weinstein is going on trial again on a rape charge in New York City, after years of #MeToo infamy, legal peril and ...

Manhattan City Councilmember Gale Brewer is drafting legislation to force public tracking of complaints from Rikers Island ...