A pilot program requiring officers to work their normal eight hours plus four hours of overtime will start Nov. 30 at the ...

Three Department of Correction employees have been suspended following another death at Rikers Island this weekend. Early Saturday morning, officers were conducting a tour and found the 29-year-old ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Rikers Island is in a crisis of leadership, and outside intervention is needed to stabilize it, the federal monitor wrote to a judge ahead of an emergency hearing. The city has ...

Three correction officers have been suspended following the death of a man incarcerated at New York City's troubled Rikers Island, jail officials said. Officers found Ardit Billa, 29, unresponsive in ...

Judge Laura Taylor Swain criticized the city's conduct in a 77-page ruling. A federal judge on Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be run ...