A library at the women’s jail on Rikers Island reopened this week after the resource had been shut down for nearly a year as correction officials struggled to manage a swelling jail population caused ...

THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — A convicted rapist has been sentenced for forcing a transgender inmate at Rikers Island into performing sex acts three years ago, authorities said Wednesday. Kelvin Williams, ...

A female guard at New York City's Rikers Island jail faces criminal charges accusing her of planning to provide marijuana to an inmate with whom she was having a sexual relationship, authorities said ...