Today’s Pet of the Week is a very sweet puppy from Pawz and Purrz Animal Rescue. Ryker is a 10-week-old husky and labradoodle ...

Seattle Kraken defenseman Ryker Evans is considered day-to-day with an upper-body injury and will not dress Thursday versus the Pacific Division rival San Jose Sharks, confirmed Kraken head coach ...

Having long fought against the appointment of an independent monitor to reform Rikers Island, the Adams administration has presented a plan for a different entity to take charge of the troubled jails ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle ...

An empty lot on White Street in Lower Manhattan may look very different seven years from now. An exclusive first look at the potential design of a new jail in Manhattan showed it gleaming with ...

A woman held on Rikers Island claims in a shocking 33-page handwritten complaint that she was repeatedly raped with sex toys by another female detainee late last month, a copy obtained by the ...

The Morristown-based law firm of Riker Danzig LLP has announced several new leadership roles within the firm. Anthony J. (“A.J.”) Borrelli has been appointed firm co-chair, to serve alongside current ...

FOREST, Va. (WSET) — Days ago, Ryker McCracken was busy playing, like any other 3-year-old. But now he's in the hospital with a life-threatening condition. "Ryker was a healthy little boy," his ...

For nearly a decade, a federal judge has been pushing to end abuse and violence in the jails on Rikers Island. With chronic staffing shortages, rampant violence and 32 deaths in custody during just ...

As a federal judge considers taking Rikers Island out of the city’s control and handing it to a court-appointed receiver, the Eagle is looking back at the history of the city’s troubled jail complex – ...