Mayor Eric Adams continued to stray from the city’s current plan to shutter Rikers Island on Tuesday, suggesting that he ...

In an effort to close Rikers Island by 2027, the city launched a project that would build smaller jails in four boroughs to transfer inmates to.

Washington’s now-abandoned McNeil Island Corrections Center was a federal penitentiary for over 100 years. Could the federal ...

Mayor Adams’ office said Tuesday that his team has looked into the possibility of building a mental health facility instead ...

North Central Bronx Hospital is planning a $46 million renovation of its emergency department to make space to build a ...

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams got into a heated argument in Queens on Monday afternoon with the head of a correction ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has worked with the Trump administration to open the ICE office on Rikers Island after an ...

A Queens councilmember told the Eagle that the mayor mischaracterized their conversations about bringing ICE to Rikers Island ...

Citing attacks from the Trump administration and overcrowding on Rikers Island, advocates for transgender people behind bars ...

A unique exhibit at the Von King Cultural Arts Center in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ... in gallery spaces – people in custody at Rikers Island. The exhibit, a first-of-its-kind for the ...

Shockley died of natural causes on March 19 in Charlotte, North Carolina, his family said. He was 72. Alonzo Hilton Shockley III was born May 21, 1952, in Delaware to parents who were educators and ...

One of his art pieces, “Black Flower,” dedicated to his sister, is now on display at the Herbert Von King Cultural Arts Center in Bed Stuy, hanging alongside the works of fellow Rikers Island inmates ...