In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...

Former HFZ Capital exec Nir Meir was denied a significant bail reduction and will remain in Rikers Island jail unless he can ...

Steve Vorrath, 30, and 34-year-old Marcel George Urban, both of Texas, were arrested and charged with possession of a stolen ...

Last week, President Trump signed into law the Laken Riley Act, which requires the attorney general to detain any non-citizen ...

As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.

State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.

A new report from the Legal Aid Society this week details the failures of local and state governments to decarcerate its ...

The city’s Department of Correction says it will open the bidding process to any contractors who want to operate its jail ...

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport ...

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein pleaded with a Manhattan judge Wednesday morning to move up his new sex assault trial because he “can’t hold on anymore” holed up on Rikers Island.

Struggle Jennings is celebrating the release of 'Live From Rikers Island' out TODAY! This exceptional live performance and conversation for Rikers Island, New York inmates was recorded on October ...

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