Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie backed down Thursday from her plan to order officers to work 12-hour tours, with the union crowing they forced her to cave on the proposal, the ...

As a judge considers appointing a receiver to oversee the jails, there are two very different plans for how that would work.

Nearly 200 years ago, Richard Riker — a powerful judge whose family the island is named after — was at the center of a ...

That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...

“We talked about getting a presence in Rikers Island, we talked about how we can collaborate on public safety threats,” Homan said Sunday. The DOJ recently ordered federal prosecutors to drop ...