As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.

The monitor appointed by a judge to track violence in the city’s notorious jail complex said in a highly-anticipated report ...

Harvey Weinstein begged to go on trial earlier than planned, saying he isn't sure he will survive long enough in the "hell ...

City lawyers argued the current jail commissioner was best suited for the job. The notion was met with no small amount of ...

New York City proposed on Thursday a new contract for building the Manhattan borough-based jail to replace Rikers Island that ...

With every contract City Hall signs for new jails to replace Rikers, the completion date gets further and further away.

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein told a judge he "won't be there" for his upcoming retrial if he remains at Rikers Island.

Renderings show the new Manhattan Detention Center, a 16-story jail set to rise in Chinatown as part of the city's plan to ...

The disgraced movie mogul asked for his trial to be accelerated, calling Rikers Island a “hellhole.” He faces three sex-crime ...

Harvey Weinstein begged a judge Wednesday to hold his #MeToo retrial as soon as possible, telling him “I don’t know how much ...

Weinstein claimed that just this morning, he was given the wrong pills, (which he happened to notice and didn’t take them).

Calling Rikers a “stain on this city,” Weinstein, 72, said he was advocating on behalf of all detainees at the jail.