Eyewitness News has investigated the violence, the staffing levels, even the sexual abuse allegations inside Rikers Island.

A federal judge in New York has taken the extraordinary step of seizing control of the city’s troubled Rikers Island jail complex, one of the nation’s largest and most famous jails, which houses ...

Eyewitness News has investigated the violence, the staffing levels, even the sexual abuse allegations inside Rikers Island.

The Adams administration has repeatedly bashed the proposal the City Council approved in 2019 to close Rikers.

The vast majority of people detained at Rikers are waiting for their day in court and have not been convicted of any crime.

Calling the conditions at Rikers Island “dangerous and unsafe,” federal Judge Laura Swain finally cleared the way for an ...

A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment ...

A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report directly to her, taking control of the troubled complex away from the city.

In appointing a receiver by another name to run Rikers Island, Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain has rightly assigned the task to an independent outsider with the power to clean up the ...

Meir, the former top executive of New York City real estate development firm HFZ Capital Group, was ordered back to jail ...

A federal judge on Tuesday said she is taking control of New York's troubled Rikers Island jail complex away from city ...

Rikers Island is a humanitarian crisis, especially for those with severe mental illness. Instead of offering care, the jail isolates, neglects, and dehumanizes people who need treatment — not ...