The judicial appointment of an outside authority to temporarily run Rikers Island offers a rare opportunity to transform one of the nation’s most troubled jails. But durable reform depends ultimately ...

The city's latest budget includes funds to grow the number of apartments in the Justice-Involved Supportive Housing program ...

A person who is unhoused before incarceration is no less vulnerable after release. But our current policy treats time in jail ...

The city is piloting a program that gives Rikers Island detainees municipal IDs in the hopes that it eases their transition ...

As extreme heat ravages New York City this summer, the lives of thousands detained on Rikers Island hang in the balance. Last ...

Hundreds of mentally ill people are routinely trapped on Rikers Island for months at a time without court-ordered treatment ...

Before leaving office, Mayor Michael Bloomberg had proposed a state-of-the-art jail to replace the old Rikers Island complex, but Mayor Bill de Blasio trashed that plan, then washed his hands of ...

The one-of-a-kind siddur features bright colors, bold text and an amalgam of Hebrew, English, Russian and Ladino prayers, as ...

Bitcoin torture suspect John Woeltz was freed on $1 million bond after two months in custody for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian crypto trader.

Even before it was a prison, Rikers Island was home to crooks. Magistrate Richard Riker, owner of the island in the early 1800s, was a descendant of the German-Dutch von Rycken family, which had he… ...

Intelligencer investigations June 28, 2015 9:00 p.m. Inside Rikers Island, Through the Eyes of the People Who Live and Work There By Maurice Chammah ...

A teenager accused of repeatedly taking city subway trains on high-speed joyrides will have to spend more than a month on ...