One detainee was discovered in a cell at the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island. The second, sources said, appears to ...

Two prisoners died just over an hour apart Friday — one at Rikers Island, and one after a medical emergency on a bus en route ...

MANHATTAN (WABC) -- Two men in custody have died while on a bus en route to Rikers Island. The cause of their deaths is under investigation. The NYC Department of Corrections issued a statement saying ...

Adam Kamagate was being detained on Rikers Island after the death of his son when he planned the scheme, prosecutors said.

The defendant, Adam Kamagate, 37, of Stapleton, pleaded guilty Monday in state Supreme Court, St. George, to charges stemming ...

A public defender with a Queens nonprofit mired in controversy was hauled off in handcuffs after he was caught smuggling 130 ...

Federal immigration officials were again blocked from reopening an office at Rikers Island in a court ruling last Friday.State Supreme Court Justice Mary Rosado granted a preliminary injunction blocki ...

There’s more trouble brewing for an embattled Queens public defender office, as a lawyer there was busted for passing drugs to an incarcerated client just days after the group’s founder was charged ...

The decision is a blow to Mayor Eric Adams, who sought to help the Trump administration expand its immigration crackdown.

An attorney with the controversy-embroiled Queens Defenders was busted for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-soaked paper into ...

Bernardo Caceres was at New York City’s jail complex to meet with a client when an envelope he had drew the attention of a ...

A judge has blocked New York City’s mayor from letting federal immigration authorities reopen an office at the city’s main ...