While running to be New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city’s jail population. Now, as he prepares to take office in just over a month and a ...

Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.

RIKERS ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) — Another death on Rikers Island on Sunday has sparked outrage among prison reform advocates. The New York City Department of Corrections said that an officer found 32-year ...

Stanley Richards came recommended by others to lead the city's Department of Corrections (DOC). He was once an inmate himself.

More than two years after city jail officials cut off nonprofit-led social services at Rikers Island, several organizations are set to return this month to provide new programming inside the troubled ...

Mayor Mamdani is now running the city, but soon he and the Department of Correction will not be running Rikers Island, the troubled jail, as Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain is due to ...

A 32-year-old Rikers Island inmate died behind bars early Sunday — the 14th in-custody death at the Big Apple jail complex this year, Correction Department officials said. Aramis Furse “appeared ...

An inmate at Rikers Island died early Sunday morning after being found unwell in his cell marking the 14th death at the jail complex this year, New York City Department of Correction officials said.

A man held in a city jail on a burglary charge died under as yet undisclosed circumstances early Friday, the 13th jail-related death in 2025, officials said. Edwin Ramos, 50, was found in medical ...

Nick Deml, former Vermont corrections commissioner, was appointed to take over Rikers Island jail in New York City, pictured on June 20, 2014. His appointment is the latest in a decade-long effort to ...