The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) announced the inaugural cohort of 15 Building Bridges documentarians for 2025 ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle ...

An empty lot on White Street in Lower Manhattan may look very different seven years from now. An exclusive first look at the potential design of a new jail in Manhattan showed it gleaming with ...

A woman held on Rikers Island claims in a shocking 33-page handwritten complaint that she was repeatedly raped with sex toys by another female detainee late last month, a copy obtained by the ...

FOREST, Va. (WSET) — Days ago, Ryker McCracken was busy playing, like any other 3-year-old. But now he's in the hospital with a life-threatening condition. "Ryker was a healthy little boy," his ...

For nearly a decade, a federal judge has been pushing to end abuse and violence in the jails on Rikers Island. With chronic staffing shortages, rampant violence and 32 deaths in custody during just ...

As a federal judge considers taking Rikers Island out of the city’s control and handing it to a court-appointed receiver, the Eagle is looking back at the history of the city’s troubled jail complex – ...