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

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday a new therapeutic facility that will be used to treat the mental ...

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

Two men who had been held on Rikers Island died in the past week, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would “pursue every avenue ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that detainees at Rikers Island with complicated medical needs will be transferred to ...

A 49-year-old man from Queens awaiting trial on Rikers Island died on Sunday, becoming the second detainee in the troubled ...

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

A new unit is opening at Bellevue Hospital to house Rikers Island detainees with serious medical needs, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday. The mayor said the $241 million facility will help ...

After two deaths at Rikers Island jail, New Yorkers have a clear message for Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his administration. “Do ...

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 ...

In his first major sit-down from behind bars, the disgraced mogul fumes about life at Rikers ("I’m dying here"), his wrecked ...