The city's latest budget includes funds to grow the number of apartments in the Justice-Involved Supportive Housing program ...

Hundreds of mentally ill people are routinely trapped on Rikers Island for months at a time without court-ordered treatment ...

The state consistently violates judicial orders by leaving detainees in need of psychiatric treatment ahead of their trial ...

The city is piloting a program that gives Rikers Island detainees municipal IDs in the hopes that it eases their transition ...

So when it came time to name the jail’s new siddur — perhaps the first ever Jewish prayer book compiled expressly for use in ...

The judicial appointment of an outside authority to temporarily run Rikers Island offers a rare opportunity to transform one ...

A person who is unhoused before incarceration is no less vulnerable after release. But our current policy treats time in jail ...

As extreme heat ravages New York City this summer, the lives of thousands detained on Rikers Island hang in the balance. Last ...

A teenager accused of repeatedly taking city subway trains on high-speed joyrides will have to spend more than a month on ...

Bitcoin torture suspect John Woeltz was freed on $1 million bond after two months in custody for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian crypto trader.

Even before it was a prison, Rikers Island was home to crooks. Magistrate Richard Riker, owner of the island in the early 1800s, was a descendant of the German-Dutch von Rycken family, which had he… ...

A man arrested in connection with a violent attempted rape in Hell’s Kitchen is now being held without bail at Rikers Island.