Having these resources available to them on-island will better support our staff’s physical and emotional health and ensure ...

A woman held on Rikers Island claims in a shocking 33-page handwritten complaint that she was repeatedly raped with sex toys ...

Public officials have it within their power to take necessary steps toward permanently closing the atrocious jails on Rikers.

Closing Rikers will provide a natural endpoint for the receivership and an opportunity for the city to take back control of ...

Joan Little during an interview at Rikers Island prison in New York city on December 21, 1977 goes through the motions to ...

The Bronx Defenders, a public defense nonprofit, joined forces with more than a dozen criminal justice organizations on ...

It’s been five years since sweeping changes to New York’s criminal justice laws took effect. The legislation, known ...

A Stratford High School teacher is accused of running what police called an “extensive” scam online and he has been arrested.

A now-former Stratford high school teacher was arrested last week after police say he was found running an extensive online ...

The group’s name is in recognition of Kalief Browder, a Bronx teen wrongfully accused of stealing a backpack in 2010 who languished on Rikers Island for three ... In an interview with the New York Law ...