Police in Luzerne County say they extradited a prisoner in Rikers Island to face charges in a cooking oil theft investigation ...

As a potential federal takeover of Rikers Island looms over the city, a court-appointed monitor said in a highly anticipated ...

NYC's Rikers Island mail ban proposal is questioned due to high rates of false positives in fentanyl field tests, where only ...

A push by New York City jail officials to block people detained at Rikers Island from receiving physical mail was based on ...

New York City officials won’t be handing over an illegal migrant accused of robbing a local prosecutor and performing a ...

The problems with these test kits are well-known, and there have been hundreds of documented cases of wrongful arrests based ...

An attempt to keep a schizophrenic man out of Rikers Island — where deplorable conditions for the mentally ill have been well ...

Donald Trump recently announced he would nominate Jay Clayton, his former Securities and Exchange Commission head, to serve ...

He got out on good behavior. Then Ramon Rivera, a troubled, homeless man with a history of arrests and mental problems, went ...

A wee bit tipsy man on a scooter somehow blew past two checkpoints and roamed around Rikers Island before his nighttime ...

A longtime Rikers Island correction officer who was bashed in the face by a violent female inmate said she is tired of criminals getting off scot-free for their violent acts in the beleaguered ...