NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people...

Police claimed that Joseph T. assaulted them in the May 2020 incident, but body camera footage published by THE CITY showed otherwise.

A longtime shelter resident, an advocate for homeless people, an academic expert, and the union president representing shelter security officers on what can be done.

When people with mental health issues enter the criminal justice system and the city’s lock-ups, they often get less help and more trauma.

Kareem Mayo should be happily back home with his grandkids right now but administrative delays over leg-monitor paperwork have him stewing in Rikers.

Bent, covered up, and outright phony license plates have allowed drivers in the city to dodge red light and speeding cameras some 1.5 million times since the pandemic started — and the problem is...

Jose Mejia Martinez, 34, jailed on a shoplifting charge, died after multiple correction officers failed to seek medical help for three hours, a federal lawsuit charges. 

A new report from the Board of Correction states that “a pervasive issue of insufficient supervision by correctional staff” was a factor in most tragedies behind bars.

Win Rozario’s brother and parents have also called on officers Matthew Cianfrocco and Salvatore Alongi to be fired and charged with murder.

The now-mayoral candidate repeatedly told investigators he couldn’t remember key details of his birthday bash at a fancy Manhattan club, documents show. Among the guests: bidders for a “racino”...

A year after its launch, the inter-agency team heralded to help reform Rikers Island has yet to issue a single report or update showing its work. Now a key player is leaving.

Michael Lopez’s mom tells THE CITY he was a good kid with psychiatric needs that were not being met behind bars. And she questions how he was able to get his hands on the drugs he apparently OD’d on.

From his bed at Bellevue, James Carlton says that he has nightmares and that ‘everything hurts.’

The de Blasio administration pushed staff punishments Friday but has rejected more systemic changes to solitary confinement in New York City jails.

In 1991, Adams portrayed Officer Lizette Lebron as the “scorned lover” of another cop and displayed a picture of her in a bathing suit after she exposed a cheating scandal. The mayoral frontrunner...

Commissioner Louis Molina on Monday asked Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Investigation Sarena Townsend to immediately step down. Townsend was lauded by a federal monitor overseeing the...

A group of city lawmakers toured city jails and touted improvements. Almost all got campaign cash from the union representing jail personnel.

For five years, the NYPD told the City Council in quarterly reports that it had over time replaced hundreds of cops handling clerical duties with less expensive civilian employees.  But when city...

Look on the NYC.gov website for the Local Conditional Release Commission — its job is weighing early release for people sentenced to Rikers Island and other city jails — and all youR…

A 15-year-old agreement to put 20 automatic sidewalk toilets around the city has been completely stalled for the last two years, with 15 restrooms still not in service.

How many officers are working double or triple shifts? Without the data, the Board of Correction won’t be able to tell, a member says.

The mayor tapped Wiley in 2014 to get broadband to low-income neighborhoods. Now, 1.5 million people are still unconnected. The mayoral candidate blames her ex-boss, but an examination suggests a...

The city’s Correctional Health Services is covering up for the Department of Correction’s “incompetence,” the public defenders say.

The Mayor of New York City tells a personal story that is compelling and often untruthful. With a thin list of accomplishments so far, can he address the city’s problems?

The Department of Correction’s oversight board on Wednesday also revealed complaints about lack of soap, toothbrushes and laundry.

Today, the Gotham Book Prize, an annual award that began during the first year of the pandemic to honor and support the best writing about New York City, whether fiction or nonfiction, announced it…

Despite a mandate to return funds, the Department of Correction holds $4.2 million for people it claims it can’t locate. 

Correction Department workers are suspected of building the lounge in the James A. Thomas Center, a 90-year-old facility vacated in 2015.

A federal lawmaker is demanding officials running a prison in lower Manhattan detail how long it takes for those in the lockup to get medical care. U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez is demanding answers as…

The medical examiner ruled Curtis Davis’ death a suicide by hanging, despite the initial internal report that said he was found unconscious on the floor.

When THE CITY highlighted Kareem Mayo’s plight — stuck in jail after being freed from a two-decade stint on murder charges — officials started making calls and got him sprung.

The city is on pace to match 2018, when more than 700 people headed to the hospital due to hot weather, data shows. As the planet is warming, New York is feeling the heat: It recently placed as the...

Back in 2004, at the end of my first week at The News, my boss, Arthur Browne, who ran the editorial board, summoned me to his office, pulled two bottles out of a desk drawer and said he had an imp…

From the Ivy League to a prison block to the newsroom, reporter Keri Blakinger has chronicled her drug-fueled fall from grace to her rise as a hard-hitting journalist fighting for society’s u…

The John Doe complaint that led to the settlement followed other allegations against physical therapist Carlos Negron that were ignored by Correction Department investigators.

The Department of Correction says that the de Blasio-era practice of notifying the press when someone dies in a detention facility is over. Advocacy groups and a federal monitor say it’s part of a...

A 12-year-old boy died Tuesday after he ran into a Brooklyn street to chase after a soccer ball and was crushed by a van, officials and witnesses said. Samuel Cohen-Eckstein was bouncing the ball o…

A woman who was shoved to the pavement by a police officer during the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations has settled with the city — in an agreement that includes a rare payment out of the...

In a highly unusual arrangement, the movie mogul was moved to a separate floor from where Rikers detainees are usually held, where he has access to his own phone, bathroom and television.

Today's bout is a battle between Bronx champions, the 41st Precinct, and the Manhattan champs at the 24th Precinct. One precinct really brought its "A" game. The other did not.