Why I Blew the Whistle on Extreme Confinement on Rikers Island Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human contact — ...

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It’s one of the most enduring openings in television history: a “three-hour tour” gone wrong that strands seven people—soon ...

The City Council was wrong to write a law purporting to ban solitary confinement on Rikers Island, as it would significantly ...

The death toll at Rikers Island jumped to seven this year with two men dying at the notorious jail Friday, officials said.

The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and determination of young detainees, awaiting their cases to be adjudicated by the ...

The City Council has filed a lawsuit to block Mayor Eric Adams from allowing federal immigration authorities to open an office on Rikers Island.

Two men have died in separate incidents while in custody of NYC Correction Department, the cause of their deaths is under investigation.

A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that gave him a painful, five-day erection — and ignoring his excr… ...

Crews are dredging sand from Pensacola Bay and piling it onto White Island, a spit of land that's eroded down to roughly half its former size.

White Island, a once popular picnic spot for boaters and sunbathers in Bayou Davenport off Navy Point, is on its way to being restored after erosion took a toll.