Seeing how he did that…in regular society, due to the laws, he knows that, all right, if I attack an officer here, it’s not ...

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

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

A former New York City corrections officer will serve 90 days in jail after being convicted of planting a weapon in an inmate’s cell at Rikers Island and then falsifying reports about the incident, ...

Full control -- independent of City Hall -- leaves no room for interference by politicians or the corrections union, writes The Post Editorial Board. AP A new watchdog report on Rikers Island details ...

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

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

A Rikers Island correctional officer will be fired after being found guilty this week of sexually abusing a woman in his ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote that ...

Officials say an officer discovered a man in need of medical attention and immediately provided aid just after midnight. The man was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. Edwin ...