Four City Council members have decried a practice by city jails of locking severely mentally ill people in their cells for ...

This flat swath of over 100 acres near City Island in Long Island Sound is the city’s only potter’s field. Prisoners from ...

A locked-up sex offender groped New York City Councilwoman Sandy Nurse during a Tuesday morning tour of Rikers Island, The Post has learned.

City detainees with so-called 730 designations wait an average of 76 days for a bed in facilities like Kirby Forensic ...

Harvey Weinstein is back in court in New York for a hearing ahead of his retrial on rape charges stemming from his landmark ...

In an effort to reduce the population of Rikers Island inmates before its legally mandated closure, NYC courts will begin to speed up felony cases.

Court officials know they need to speed things up to keep the prison population down ahead of the planned Rikers closure.

THE BRONX (WABC) -- New York City's court system has unveiled a new plan to speed up felony cases. The goal is to decrease the jail population before Rikers Island's legally mandated closure in ...

Councilmember Sandy Nurse said she was assaulted by a person in custody during a visit to Rikers Island Tuesday morning — and ...

New York's court system is working with the Center for Justice Innovation to implementing a number of common-sense measures ...

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the closure of Rikers Island by 2027. The city was also tasked with lowering the amount of people held in the jail from more than 5,000 to less ...