Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...

ICE wants an office inside NYC’s notorious Rikers Island jail. A judge might end those hopes - New York City Mayor Eric Adams crafted a ‘corrupt bargain’ with Trump to let federal agents ...

A state judge in New York will continue to block Donald Trump’s administration from opening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office inside Rikers Island jail, one of the largest and most ...

NEW YORK — As Rikers Island continues to be in turmoil, lawyers are preparing to ask a federal judge to consider emergency relief to alleviate conditions on the island. Emergency relief could ...

New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has been troubled by years of neglect and now has spiraled into turmoil during the coronavirus pandemic. By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press Arts Aug 01 ...

(The Center Square) – A state judge in New York has extended a temporary restraining order barring federal immigration officials from setting up a permanent office at the Rikers Island jail. The ...

As a federal judge moves forward with her plan to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island, her longtime federal monitor said last week in a new report that while the city’s management of ...