A judge has found the city in contempt of court and has cleared the way for an outside official, instead of City Hall, to ...

A judge found New York City in contempt of an agreement meant to improve jail conditions, setting the stage for a ...

A U.S. judge on Wednesday said she was leaning toward ordering a federal takeover of New York City's Rikers Island jail ...

A judge's scathing ruling Wednesday moves New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail complex a step closer to a federal ...

US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said the city had placed incarcerated people in “unconstitutional danger” ...

Awaiting a new New York trial next year on additional sex crimes charges, Harvey Weinstein seems to be wishing he was ...

A judge ruled New York City is now in contempt over "grave" conditions at the Rikers Island prison complex, with a federal ...

New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail is likely to be taken over by the federal government after a judge ruled the ...

In a legal notice, Weinstein’s attorney likened Rikers, a notoriously dangerous jail, to a “gulag” and accused officials of ...

A Correction captain on Rikers Island who cost the city $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim has been named in yet ...

A federal judge has ordered New York City to draft plans to hand over management of its Rikers Island jail complex to a third ...

The judge found that conditions have only continued to worsen at the jail complex, setting up a potential federal takeover.