Incarcerated women face a diverse subset of challenges while pregnant. This program helps them prepare for motherhood while ...

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams urged the Adams administration Monday to look at ways to reduce the jail population, which ...

Mayor Eric Adams continued to stray from the city’s current plan to shutter Rikers Island on Tuesday, suggesting that he ...

Mayor Adams’ office said Tuesday that his team has looked into the possibility of building a mental health facility instead ...

Attorneys for Mayor Eric Adams are appealing a court decision that’s temporarily blocking his administration from taking any steps to let federal immigration authorities operate on Rikers Island. In ...

Amid the debate over the plan, it remains unclear what might happen to the detainees currently housed on the island. Even if the project was completed on time, the census on Rikers far exceeds the ...

North Central Bronx Hospital is planning a $46 million renovation of its emergency department to make space to build a ...

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams got into a heated argument in Queens on Monday afternoon with the head of a correction ...

An Astoria, Queens, pastry shop that got international attention in 2024 when it distributed cookies to inmates at Rikers Island of Pope Francis, is keeping up the tradition with Pope Leo cookies.

Fox News contributor Paul Mauro and former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio join 'America's Newsroom' to discuss the debate of a potential ICE presence on Rikers Island and the city's handling of ...

Although other U.S. island prisons like Rikers Island and Terminal Island remain operational, bridges now connect them to the mainland; MICC was the last island prison that could truly only be ...