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

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

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

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

Too little too late. A frustrated city lawmaker on Wednesday called to reopen a long-shuttered federal immigration outpost at ...

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers filed a legal claim alleging that he is receiving substandard medical treatment in unhygienic ...

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

A federal judge said that she was leaning toward taking the extreme measure of stripping the city of its control of Rikers ...

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

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

New York City was found in contempt Wednesday over “grave” conditions at Rikers Island — as a judge said she was “inclined” to order a federal takeover of the ...