The union representing Rikers Island’s correction officers is suing the city for reinstating forced 12-hour shifts, arguing officials illegally used an emergency order to revive the longer tours.

Advocates on Tuesday demanded the governor sign a package of bills meant to reform the state’s troubled prisons, a year after ...

More than 200 drivers at an Amazon warehouse in Queens announced they were unionizing on Tuesday morning, the second set of ...

Zohran Mamdani, the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City, will pack his bags over the coming weeks and make the move across the East River to Gracie Mansion when he takes office ...

A 32-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Sunday morning, becoming the 14th person to die in the Department of Correction’s ...

One of the city’s top public defender organizations recently faced backlash from its union after an announced candidate for ...

Queens locals and elected officials rallied in Western Queens over the weekend to protest the federal detention of a ...

Former State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who was expelled from the legislature and who later served prison time on public ...

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso announced his bid to succeed retiring Representative Nydia Velázquez in Congress ...

Heavily armed federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security were spotted in Jackson Heights on Thursday morning, ...

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 ...