Reuven Blau

As youth gun violence in the city remains elevated from its pre-pandemic levels, a state program has left hundreds of millions unspent — and kept any of that money from coming here.

A new report details how missed safety checks, contraband drugs and lapses in medical care preceded the deaths of three detainees in late 2025.

The estates of two men who died of methadone overdoses received large settlements amid a surge in Rikers-related payouts.

Advocates warn the Securus system could funnel intimate detainee call details into the company's AI tools.

The federal remediation manager of the jail tapped Sarena Townsend to help run misconduct investigations.

Investigators reviewed video, incident reports and internal emails after a whistleblower said corrections officers were isolating mentally ill detainees.

The latest death came while the city's correction commissioner and federal remediation manager were overseas touring German lockups.

The deal allows the governor to claim some legislative victories as she prepares for her re-election campaign this year, including a rollback of the state's climate goals that was opposed by members of her own party.

A state review found the Health Department launched new initiatives and improved data collection. But Black women still face disproportionately high pregnancy-related death rates.

A new rule requires judges to make recurring visits to prisons and jails after years of uneven compliance with a little-enforced Attica uprising-era mandate.