Jurors started deliberating Wednesday in Harvey Weinstein ’s rape retrial, weighing an unresolved piece of a case that ...

I was young and stupid, ripping and running the streets, flouting the law—I never knew this would be part of the punishment.

The City Council this week demanded the Department of Correction answer long-ignored questions about how it's changed – or ...

New York City has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to settle lawsuits brought by the families of two men who died of ...

Sid Vicious was fresh from Rikers Island prison complex when he died of a heroin overdose on Feb. 2, 1979. Find out all about ...

The city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed ...

As New York City’s first ever “close Rikers czar,” it’s Dana Kaplan’s job to get the notorious jails complex shut down ASAP.

Almost a decade ago, plans were made to shut down Rikers Island for good. Here's the deadline the city was given to shut its doors.

Houlder and Hawkins are set to return to Bronx court on July 1. The pretrial phase could surface more of the surveillance footage that prosecutors say undercuts the officers’ written reports, and it ...

Mamdani announced the new role of a 'close Rikers czar' ...

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a new Close Rikers czar charged with leading efforts to shutter the city's ...

For decades, the unfixable Rikers Island has hurt New Yorkers — those inside the massive complex’s walls and all of us beyond them. Under city law, the Mamdani administration must produce a plan to ...