A library at the women’s jail on Rikers Island reopened this week after the resource had been shut down for nearly a year as correction officials struggled to manage a swelling jail population caused ...

Harvey Weinstein has been behind bars at the New York maximum-security prison Rikers Island since 2020 ...

New York City’s infamous jail Rikers Island houses nearly 7,000 detainees. Chefs, not inmates, do the cooking. And while they ...

Weinstein said the quality of life in Rikers compared to state prison is much worse.

Rikers Island, New York City's most notorious jail complex, sits in the water between the Bronx and Queens. When I visited the complex in April 2025, I expected it to be hard to reach — and I wasn't ...

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein moaned about his miserable life at Rikers Island in a new jailhouse interview — claiming that he was pummeled in the face by a fellow inmate and is ...

In a rare conversation from Rikers Island, the fallen Hollywood power broker reflects on isolation, illness and the scandal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rikers Island jail in New York City holds nearly 7,000 detainees, who consume about 7 million meals a year. I wanted to see how ...