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

This flat swath of over 100 acres near City Island in Long Island Sound is the city’s only potter’s field. Prisoners from ...

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

City detainees with so-called 730 designations wait an average of 76 days for a bed in facilities like Kirby Forensic ...

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

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

A fragile looking Harvey Weinstein showed up in a Manhattan courtroom this morning for proceedings in his upcoming new New ...

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein has been diagnosed with a form of bone marrow cancer while in jail. Weinstein, 72, was ...

Chief Administrative Judge Joseph A. Zayas and First Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Norman St. George announced new ...

Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a rare type of cancer that affects the bone marrow and white blood cells, and is 'usually ...

New York City’s Rikers Island jail spirals into chaos amid pandemic New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has been troubled by years of neglect and now has spiraled into turmoil during ...