As the population on Rikers Island continues to grow past 7,000 detainees – its highest point since 2019 – a collection of ...

Incarcerated women face a diverse subset of challenges while pregnant. This program helps them prepare for motherhood while ...

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams urged the Adams administration Monday to look at ways to reduce the jail population, which ...

Mayor Eric Adams continued to stray from the city’s current plan to shutter Rikers Island on Tuesday, suggesting that he ...

The mayor has asked top staffers to look into how many units of housing could be built at the borough sites in Manhattan, ...

A unique exhibit at the Von King Cultural Arts Center in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood is shining a spotlight on ...

A New York judge Monday blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from entering Rikers Island, setting up a ...

Attorneys for Mayor Eric Adams are appealing a court decision that’s temporarily blocking his administration from taking any steps to let federal immigration authorities operate on Rikers Island. In ...

North Central Bronx Hospital is planning a $46 million renovation of its emergency department to make space to build a ...

Amid the debate over the plan, it remains unclear what might happen to the detainees currently housed on the island. Even if the project was completed on time, the census on Rikers far exceeds the ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ potential presence on Rikers Island has once again been delayed, shortly ...