The long-delayed opening of the 104-bed unit comes with the decommissioning of the North Infirmary Command, the jail ...

Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubled down on an impossible promise. In October 2019, the City Council passed a law that ...

Advocates are urging the Mamdani administration to transfer a long-vacant Rikers Island jail facility out of Department of ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced the opening of a new, quarter billion hospital unit for city inmates complete with ...

New legislation would expand ballot access, require new reporting, and explore polling sites inside Rikers Island.

The city on Wednesday will welcome patients to a long-delayed jail ward at Bellevue Hospital, finally putting to use a ...

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced the opening of a first-of-its-kind outposted therapeutic housing unit as a ...

Like the Jewish people in Egypt, you too hold fast to your faith in the face of the unknown,” Mamdani’s letter read.

As a federal judge considers taking Rikers Island out of the city’s control and handing it to a court-appointed receiver, the Brooklyn Eagle is looking back at the history of the city’s troubled jail ...

Rikers Island, New York City's most notorious jail complex, sits in the water between the Bronx and Queens. When I visited the complex in April 2025, I expected it to be hard to reach — and I wasn't ...

NEW YORK — Leadership of the notoriously problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex has officially fallen into federal hands with the anticipated appointment of an independent administrator, officials ...