Jake Pearson

Rikers Island is a 10-jail facility where an average of 11,000 inmates a night—men, women and youths—are held ...

The New York City mayor wants to spend $130 million over four years to overhaul how the nation's ...

NEW YORK—New York City’s reform-minded jails commissioner is facing opposition to his plan to put the 250 most ...

NEW YORK—New York City jail officials plan tighter screening of guards and other employees after a city investigation ...

NEW YORK—New York City is using a $400,000 federal grant to review suicides and acts of self-harm in ...

These are the deaths in New York City's Rikers Island jail that don't make headlines—prisoners with diseases, disorders, ...

The newly appointed commissioner of New York City’s jail system violated city law by sending as many as ...