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Dan Mannarino speaks with New York City Council Member, Sandy Nurse, about the city no longer fully controlling its jail ...

A federal judge on Tuesday stripped New York City of its control over Rikers Island jail, which will now effectively be run ...

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

The historic step, taking control of the jails away from the city, is "a drastic and necessary measure to save lives," ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rikers Island will be taken out of city control, and an outside official will report directly to a federal judge. The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, ruled the remediation manager will ...

With early voting in the June primary just a month away, voters will soon rank their top five choices for who they want to be the next mayor of New York City. THE CITY, in partnership with Gothamist, ...

A federal judge finally acknowledged that New York City won't fix the constitutional crisis at Rikers on its own, but the ...