NEW YORK -- Most people who've done time in jail can't wait to get away. But this week, New York City authorities accused one former inmate of sneakin...

Last summer, a 25-year-old robbery suspect at Rikers Island took a ball of concentrated soap meant to clean his jail cell and swallowed it. Jason Eche...

It seems about right that it's raining as we drive over the bridge to Rikers Island in a prison van with metal grills over the windows. We're riding w...

RIKERS ISLAND -- Sex among city correction officers is "rampant" on Rikers Island -- and it happens during work hours, a new lawsuit charges. Corre...

NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs will invest almost $10 million in a city jail program that will produce profits for the investment firm if recidivism r...

A Springfield, Massachusetts cop was shot and killed by a New York City Corrections officer Monday, cops say. Kevin Ambrose was responding to a cal...

The family of accused "millionaire madam" Anna Gristina have taken to the web to raise funds for her $2 million bail and to bring her home in time for...

Harold Wachtel, the epileptic 19-year-old charged with murdering his mother-- beloved La Guardia High School teacher, Pratt professor, and writer Kary...

After years of debate, a lawsuit, and another lawsuit, the Brooklyn House of Detention is slated to reopen next week. The facility closed in 2003 ...

The size of the prison system in the United States is horrific. Equally horrific are its rapid growth and the direct and indirect costs.

The ICE Out of Rikers campaign should make New Yorkers proud to live in a city that is becoming a bit more welcoming to its 2.9 million immigrants.

It was Marion's second date with Michael M. Smith, and he asked her whether she wanted to see his cemetery. She found herself at the Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead, the city's oldest house that's still used as a private home.

Animal New York reports today that New York City has beat out San Francisco for the top rank on WalkScore.com, which grades places on walking distance...

Here's a policy that won't go over well with the inmates. Rikers Island doesn't want to see lots of skin from its female visitors, reports the New Yor...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the NYPD's decision to give Dominique Strauss-Kahn the 'perp walk', according to The New York Post. During a visit...

Sabrina Milo was released from Riker's Island last night after meeting $100,000 dollars bail, WABC reports. Milo, an art teacher at Ft. Hamilton Hig...