Inmates are running wild on Rikers Island amid an ongoing staffing crunch that’s left charges free to stab each other, answer the phones and run through corridors destroying maintenance equipment, The ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Department of Correction Commissioner Stanely Richards, the first formerly incarcerated person in the role, sits down with PIX11 to discuss pushing forward on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ...

One female correction officer at Rikers Island walks around the troubled jail complex with her back to the wall after a male inmate grabbed her rear end. Another wakes up in cold sweats reliving the ...

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city's criminal justice system. The city is ...

An inmate at Rikers Island died in his prison cell Saturday morning – marking the ninth reported prisoner death at the troubled New York City jail this year, officials said. Ardit Billa, 29, who was ...

"I am deeply honored and grateful to Mayor Mamdani for this appointment,” said DOC Commissioner Richards.

Last month, a federal monitor overseeing the city’s Department of Correction said the agency remains mired in the same dysfunction that prompted a court’s intervention nearly a decade ago. “The reform ...

A 32-year-old Rikers Island inmate died behind bars early Sunday — the 14th in-custody death at the Big Apple jail complex this year, Correction Department officials said. Aramis Furse “appeared ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rikers Island is on lockdown after correction officers reported a missing inmate. Sources tell Eyewitness News that the inmate jumped a fence at the Anna M. Kross Center jail, ...

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city’s criminal justice system. The city is ...