A Black man filed a civil rights lawsuit in December 2025, accusing Department of Correction (DOC) officers of sodomizing him.

The mayor renewed a Rikers emergency order, pledging to meet jail standards and move toward ending solitary confinement after years of delays.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani directed city agencies to make plans to comply with rules governing health and safety at the facilities, ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed two executive orders, including one that would stop solitary confinement at Rikers ...

A men's boutique, "Dressed for the Part," has been launched at Rikers Island prison that will help prisoners with business ...

We will work closely with the federal monitor and the parties to put the City back on track to end solitary confinement as ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city must develop a plan that implements a law banning prolonged solitary confinement in city ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday night signed a new executive order extending the long-running emergency declaration governing the city’s jails and Rikers Island, while requiring Department of ...

Every five days since he took office, like clockwork, former Mayor Eric Adams signed a temporary executive order extending a ...

Although many of them had criminal records, most people who died in custody had not been convicted of the crime they were in ...

Danielle Miller, a former social media influencer who once proudly called herself a 'con artist,' will serve even more time ...

For McDowell, then 18, the letter felt like proof that the truth would eventually come out. He handed it to his ...