Detainees with mental health issues are sometimes locked inside cells for weeks or months at a time without access to their ...

A former Rikers Island correctional officer was cuffed by federal authorities last week after prosecutors said she smuggled ...

It will be some time before locals can bike and walk the planned Queens Waterfront Greenway, but the city started the ...

A major developer has plans to build two nearly 50-story towers in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Central Queens ...

With the city’s legally-mandated deadline to close Rikers Island now less than three years away, top court officials this ...

The family of a man who committed suicide on Rikers Island last year said in a new lawsuit that the city and its Department ...

"I support the Treatment Not Jail Act, legislation that promises to extend the healing my team witnesses every day to ...

Republican candidates challenging Queens Democratic state lawmakers in November’s general election are spending big, new ...

Xiaoning Zhang, a Chinese national who was found guilty of murdering her former Queens-based immigration lawyer, was ...

City district attorneys will each be getting a portion of a $35 million pot allocated in the state budget this year to ...

A City Council bill discussed Friday would define the procedures the DOC and Correctional Health Services – the branch of the ...

Speaking publicly in Queens for the first time since being indicted on federal bribery and corruption charges, Mayor Eric ...