With the city’s legally-mandated deadline to close Rikers Island now less than three years away, top court officials this ...

The family of a man who committed suicide on Rikers Island last year said in a new lawsuit that the city and its Department ...

It will be some time before locals can bike and walk the planned Queens Waterfront Greenway, but the city started the ...

Detainees with mental health issues are sometimes locked inside cells for weeks or months at a time without access to their ...

"I support the Treatment Not Jail Act, legislation that promises to extend the healing my team witnesses every day to ...

A former Rikers Island correctional officer was cuffed by federal authorities last week after prosecutors said she smuggled drugs into the notorious jail complex in exchange for cash payments from ...

A major developer has plans to build two nearly 50-story towers in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Central Queens – but locals want no part of it.