New York City should create two new positions to oversee the closure of Rikers Island, which is mandated to take place by ...

An independent commission says the facility can still be shuttered despite a jail population that exceeds capacity of planned ...

The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission appointed by the City Council ...

The planned facility, which will include 1,040 beds, is one of four borough-based jails set to open in the Bronx, Queens, ...

A New York City correction officer was sentenced to two years’ probation and 250 hours of community service after failing to render aid for nearly eight minutes when an 18-year-old inmate at Rikers ...

The man who died in an upstate prison Saturday allegedly at the hands of correction officers during a wildcat strike showed ...

A bank robber who was released on parole in January after serving three years in prison struck again last week in Manhattan, ...

A murder suspect who authorities say escaped from a police van and spent nearly four hours on the loose in the Bronx is now facing additional charges for fleeing NYPD custody, according to the ...

CO-OP CITY, The Bronx (WABC) -- A 29-year-old man is facing years behind bars for allegedly raping a teenage girl. Casmine Aska was walked out of the 45 Precinct in the Bronx by detectives earlier ...

CROTONA PARK, The Bronx (PIX11) – A man was arrested on Monday ... was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds to his head near East 176 th Street and Mohegan Avenue on July 29, police said.