Indictments for healthcare fraud have been brought against one current and two former Rikers Island officers, who allegedly faked injuries to claim nearly $1 million in workers' comp.

Over the past four years, an unlikely alliance of advocates for people behind bars and former Department of Correction ...

Meir, the former top executive of New York City real estate development firm HFZ Capital Group, was ordered back to jail ...

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy spoke with Marcia Kramer on this week's episode ...

New York City Public Advocate spoke with CBS News New York's Marcia Kramer about a variety of issues, including federal ...

Calling the conditions at Rikers Island “dangerous and unsafe,” federal Judge Laura Swain finally cleared the way for an ...

A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A federal judge Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be run by an official who reports directly to the court. In the ...

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A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that an independent official will be appointed to oversee the Rikers Island jail complex, ...

A federal judge in New York has taken the extraordinary step of seizing control of the city’s troubled Rikers Island jail ...