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.

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

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 ...

Carlos Ozrio, 39, was found not guilty last month on accusations from the fellow corrections officer that he groped her from behind “while kissing her neck” at a Riker’s Island ...

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

The Internet believes karma has done its job after disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein was diagnosed with a form of leukemia.

Disgraced movie producer and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has been diagnosed with a form of bone marrow cancer, multiple ...

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 ...

A correction officer was allegedly slashed in the head by a gangbanger during a fight inside troubled Rikers Island on ...

Weinstein, 72, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (per NBC News) while serving a 23-year sentence for rape and ...