A Rikers Island correctional officer will be fired after being found guilty this week of sexually abusing a woman in his Queens home – a decision that comes years after he was first accused by ...

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...

New Yorkers trying to visit loved ones on Rikers Island are routinely forced to endure hours-long waits, inconsistent rules ...

Vincent Schiraldi — who resigned in June as head of Maryland’s juvenile services department following statewide spikes in ...

The agency put more women at risk because it did not take allegations made by formerly incarcerated women seriously, the ...

A female guard at New York City's Rikers Island jail faces criminal charges accusing her of planning to provide marijuana to an inmate with whom she was having a sexual relationship, authorities said ...

A bloodthirsty gangbanger slashed two Rikers Island correction officers in a gruesome ceramic scalpel attack — bringing his behind-bars trail of victims to more than 50 people, union leaders said ...

You can hear the moment Carlton James became a quadriplegic, he claims, losing the use of his limbs. He is quickly taken down by correction officers, and you hear a yelp. James was in a city jail in ...

New York City lawmakers are set to vote Wednesday on several bills aimed at improving conditions for people in custody and laying more groundwork for the eventual closure of the Rikers Island jails.

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city's criminal justice system. The city is ...