With every contract City Hall signs for new jails to replace Rikers, the completion date gets further and further away.

A gaunt-looking Harvey Weinstein pleaded with the judge in his upcoming criminal retrial to move the start date forward, even ...

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport ...

A Bronx jury Tuesday acquitted a correction captain while convicting an officer for their roles in a 2019 incident during which a Rikers Island detainee ... in history for a jail incident ...

Harvey Weinstein urged a New York judge on Wednesday to move up his April sexual assault retrial amid continued health issues and "medieval" conditions at New York City's Rikers Island.

He complained that the conditions he faces in jail are complicating his medical issues, calling Rikers Island "a medieval situation." Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears for a pre-trial ...

Now, his administration is proposing a new role for Maginley-Liddie: compliance director, which would be in charge of the court-ordered overhaul of Rikers and the rest of the city's jail system.

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday told a judge he "won't be there" for his upcoming retrial if he must remain at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York. Weinstein, 72 ...

NEW YORK — Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein begged a Manhattan judge Wednesday to expedite his rape and sexual assault retrial so he can get off Rikers Island alive, telling the jurist he was ...