Andrew Cuomo has finally come out for the only sane position on the troubled Rikers Island jail complex: Rebuild it, don’t replace it with smaller, more costly borough ones. Cuomo had previously ...

A man held on Rikers Island who was waiting two months to be transferred upstate to serve a prison sentence died Wednesday night, officials said — making him the third detainee death in the city jails ...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday if elected mayor he would cancel the closure of Rikers Island – New York City’s infamous jail complex – in favor of a plan to demolish and rebuild on ...

Rikers Island must be shut down by 2027, according to a city law enacted during the de Blasio Adminstration in 2019. However, those running this November to be the next NYC mayor aren't so sure that ...