James Adames says he started his lengthy criminal record at just 18 years old.

For his service to people on Rikers Island, Officer J. Martin of the city Department of Correction was recognized for Martin ...

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 ...

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

With every contract City Hall signs for new jails to replace Rikers, the completion date gets further and further away.

A gaunt-looking Harvey Weinstein pleaded with the judge in his upcoming criminal retrial to move the start date forward, even ...

Rikers Island has made a name for itself as a campus ... who are awaiting trial or unable to post bail, as well as some inmates serving sentences of one year or less. Most of the inmates are ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

Ranked as one of the 10 worst correctional facilities in the US, inmates ... spent time in Rikers — have collaborated to write “City Time, On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island,” (New York ...

Harvey Weinstein claims that his declining health has gotten the best of him while behind bars. According to People, on Wednesday (January 29), Weinstein, 72, told Judge Curtis Farber of the ...