Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says officials are reviewing 200 inmates that could be released from New York City’s Rikers Island due to the spread of COVID-19. The announcement comes one day after officials revealed that more than three dozen inmates and employees had tested positive on Rikers Island. De Blasio said 23 inmates over 50 years old and at “low…

Twenty-one inmates on Rikers Island tested positive for novel coronavirus – a dramatic increase from the first case reported by Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday.

A New York City corrections officer stationed on Rikers Island has tested positive for COVID-19, city officials announced Wednesday, just days after an investigator working at the jail died after testing positive for the virus.  A number of city leaders and public advocates are calling for immediate assistance to help the elderly incarcerated and to adequately the staff working inside…

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Prison consultant Craig Rothfeld said he’s getting Harvey Weinstein ready for the for first 90 days of his sentence, calling it a “very dark” time where he will be “powerless” — and said his convicted sex offender status could make him a target. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.

Keon Richmond was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for shooting Alastasia Bryan five times in her chest, hand and both arms as she sat in her car before she was set to go to work at Rikers Island

Six New York City correction officers assigned to Rikers Island and more than a dozen others, including inmates and intermediaries, are charged with conspiring to accept bribes and smuggling contraband into the jail, federal prosecutors say. The investigation conducted by the FBI and the city’s Department of Investigation revealed a scheme by the defendants to smuggle narcotics into the...

New York City lawmakers moved a step closer to closing Rikers Island, a massive jail complex notorious for violence and dysfunction that is increasingly seen as a relic.

New York City’s average daily jail population will be cut in half by 2026, according to a new report.

Two men were convicted Thursday in a racketeering case featuring the testimony of Tekashi 6ix9ine, the rapper whose decision to cooperate put him in danger while in jail and made him a target of social media ridicule by other artists labeling him a “snitch.”

New York City’s Planning Commission approved an ambitious plan on Tuesday to replace the notorious Rikers Island jail complex with four smaller lockups located in densely populated neighborhoods.

A former Rikers Island corrections officer faces up to five years behind bars after admitting he smuggled drugs into the New York City jail.

Officials say a transgender woman who was found dead in a New York City jail died of natural causes due to a seizure related to epilepsy.

A Bronx man who made national headlines after he chose to stay on Rikers Island rather than plead guilty to a crime he said he didn’t commit is now suspected of throwing a glass bottle at a van occupied by four girls, the NYPD says.

Police say Pedro Hernandez, 19, was caught on surveillance video with another unidentified man, attacking the minivan just after midnight on May 25. Two 20-year-old women, a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl were in the vehicle.

A haggard-looking Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of mortgage fraud, falsifying business records and conspiracy and scheme to defraud in Manhattan court Thursday.

The former Trump campaign manager wore a blue prison jumpsuit as he faced a judge Thursday on 16 felony counts, including mortgage fraud. NBC 4 New York’s Michael George reports.

If Paul Manafort’s swanky SoHo loft didn’t do it for you, how about the convicted ex-presidential campaign manager’s Trump Tower condo?