A judge has found the city in contempt of court and has cleared the way for an outside official, instead of City Hall, to ...

A judge found New York City in contempt of an agreement meant to improve jail conditions, setting the stage for a ...

A U.S. judge on Wednesday said she was leaning toward ordering a federal takeover of New York City's Rikers Island jail ...

A judge's scathing ruling Wednesday moves New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail complex a step closer to a federal ...

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers filed a legal claim alleging that he is receiving substandard medical treatment in unhygienic ...

A federal judge ruled that New York City was in violation of 18 different provisions of a court-enforced plan to clean up the ...

Awaiting a new New York trial next year on additional sex crimes charges, Harvey Weinstein seems to be wishing he was ...

New York City Department of Correction officer at Rikers Island’s George R. Vierno Center. (James Keivom/New York Daily News) ...

New York City was found in contempt Wednesday over “grave” conditions at Rikers Island — as a judge said she was “inclined” to order a federal takeover of the ...

The judge found that conditions have only continued to worsen at the jail complex, setting up a potential federal takeover.

A push by New York City jail officials to block people detained at Rikers Island from receiving physical mail was based on ...