Morales is the third inmate found dead this year in the prison, also known as FCI Fort Dix, a low-security institution ...

Corey Henry receives a 5-year sentence for stabbing fellow inmates at Rikers Island, pleading guilty to Assault and Attempted Murder.

The rising demand for mental health and substance use services at the jails — amid a looming mandate to close the troubled ...

Pei Chung, 34, is being held on a $4,500 cash bail or a $9,000 bond, accused of refusing to pay for high-end meals at more than a dozen restaurants in Williamsburg.

Once a month, when the Brooklyn Children’s Museum is closed to the public, it welcomes a special group of visitors: parents ...

The incident occurred in April 2023 when members of the Department of Correction Emergency Services Unit were conducting a contraband search.

The video above aired in a previous newscast. THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) – A former New York City Department of Correction ...

The video above aired in a previous nescast. THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) – A former New York City Department of Correction officer tried to frame an inmate by placing a weapon in ...

Ex-correction officer Dionisio Rosario gets 90-day jail term for planting weapon in inmate's cell at Rikers Island.

Dr. Stanley Andrisse, a tenured professor at Howard University College of Medicine, is a living example of how hope and higher education can totally change someone’s life. He went from a ...

Lauren Wachtler responds to a recent op-ed supporting mandatory prison visits for judges, drawing on the experience of her father, former New York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler, to endorse the idea but ...

“We keep the inmates on Rikers Island, and we turn those four [borough jails] in the neighborhoods into affordable housing,” Sliwa added. When asked what he’d do about the law on the city’s books ...