Duran spent three years at Rikers and another nine in different maximum-security prisons upstate for manslaughter. He described spending 23 hours a day in solitary confinement as “torture.” He said he ...

Twelve people died in city jails this year — three over a two-week period — already exceeding the number who died last year. Despite a decade under court monitoring during which five commissioners ...

One tolling agency has capped late fees. While the MTA charges $50 for every unpaid toll, the Thruway Authority charges just ...

Long Island police officers were legally justified in using deadly force against an ex-Rikers Island jail guard during a ...

A Crips member who let his younger brother languish on Rikers Island for a mistaken-identity murder he committed will spend ...

The city’s notorious jail barge was cut from its shores last week and sent south to be turned into scrap metal, putting an ...

While running to be New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city’s jail ...

The City Council on Wednesday passed a bill that could help lay the groundwork for the proposed $130 million redevelopment of ...

Rogue jurors or not, Harvey Weinstein doesn’t deserve to have the rape retrial verdict from this past summer overturned and there’s no need for a hearing on the long Incarcerated producer’s request, ...

After years of oversight, the court-appointed federal monitor for Horizon Juvenile Center said its work at the Bronx youth ...

Lauren Wachtler responds to a recent op-ed supporting mandatory prison visits for judges, drawing on the experience of her ...

A new watchdog report on Rikers Island details new medical and safety horrors besetting detainees at the sprawling jail ...