The one-of-a-kind siddur features bright colors, bold text and an amalgam of Hebrew, English, Russian and Ladino prayers, as ...

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

A suit accuses New York State’s mental health system of delaying treatment to restore people to competency, leaving them to ...

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

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

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

She was the vegan queen of New York who ended up behind bars after looting her own restaurant of millions of dollars and ...

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

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

The ex of John Woeltz – who was recently sprung from Rikers Island on a $1 million bond – also discovered her car had been ...

Job growth has slowed dramatically in the city, food prices are up and businesses are passing along tariff costs. That has ...

A felon from Manhattan was arrested Wednesday for choking a 21-year-old woman unconscious and then trying to rape her in ...