Harvey Weinstein is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence after he was convicted of raping an actress in Los Angeles ...

The new Hunts Point Marine Terminal would replace the decommissioned jail barge, which has been closed since 2023 after three ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center barge in Hunts Point—which previously housed ...

ICE wants an office inside NYC’s notorious Rikers Island jail. A judge might end those hopes - New York City Mayor Eric Adams ...

Ten years after Kalief Browder’s death by suicide, his story lingers as a reminder of both the horrors of New York City’s ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Eyewitness News has investigated the violence, the staffing levels, even the sexual abuse allegations inside Rikers Island. Now, we're getting an exclusive look at some of the ...

The fallen mogul’s trial for sex crimes in Manhattan may hinge on the testimony of a recently revealed accuser, Kaja Sokola, ...

A federal judge on Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now ... violent and inhumane conditions inside the jail for years.

Judge appoints independent official to oversee Rikers Island jail reform Legal Aid Society calls appointment a critical turning point City's proposal for compliance director role rejected by judge ...

For nearly 100 years, New York City has been housing its detainees in jail cells on Rikers Island. And for all of that time, the jail complex has been known almost exclusively as a place of ...

NEW YORK — Four New York City Council members have decried a practice by city jails of locking severely mentally ill people in their cells for extended periods, dubbed “deadlocking.” ...