Four City Council members have decried a practice by city jails of locking severely mentally ill people in their cells for ...

A locked-up sex offender groped New York City Councilwoman Sandy Nurse during a Tuesday morning tour of Rikers Island, The Post has learned.

Multiple city agencies failed to help a man suffering from a mental health crisis in the lead up to his death on Rikers ...

Rikers Island detainee Charizma Jones, who died in July of a horrific skin condition, had a history of mental illness but was ...

Two years ago today, Oct. 22, 2022, my son, Erick Tavira, died on Rikers Island at age 28. He took his own life in a solitary ...

If you screw this up in any way, I’m remanding you, which means you could be the richest person on the face of the earth, and ...

Councilmember Sandy Nurse said she was assaulted by a person in custody during a visit to Rikers Island Tuesday morning — and ...

Curtis Davis hanged himself, according to the medical examiner, but a new lawsuit alleges negligence by guards and says ...

Harvey Weinstein is back in court in New York for a hearing ahead of his retrial on rape charges stemming from his landmark ...

NEW YORK — The first time I heard about Hart Island, I couldn’t believe it. There’s a 150-year-old mass grave on an island in ...

The maternal aunt of a 4-year-old boy who prosecutors say was starved to death by his parents in their New York City ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.— When asked on the witness stand Friday about the meaning of his nickname on Rikers Island, 32-year-old ...