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

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

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

Al Booker, 41, has managed to rack up more than 40 arrests — mostly for burglary and criminal mischief — in a Manhattan crime spree that dates back to 2018, the NYPD confirmed.

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...

When Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the parties in the Rikers Island litigation to come to a joint ...

A gaunt-looking Harvey Weinstein pleaded with the judge in his upcoming criminal retrial to move the start date forward, even ...

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

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

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport ...

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein pleaded with a Manhattan judge Wednesday morning to move up his new sex assault trial because he “can’t hold on anymore” holed up on Rikers Island.

"Every day I'm at Rikers Island it's a mystery to me how I'm still walking," Weinstein told the court while seated in a wheelchair. "I'm asking and begging you, your honor, I can't hold on anymore.