Three decades later, the 800-bed lockup — the last operating prison ship in the United ... The last of an armada of floating jails used by New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s ...

A New York woman who had been in prison for 13 years was released Tuesday after new evidence contradicted accounts that she helped a hitman carry out a murder 25 years ago in the Bronx.

Nov. 27 (UPI) --A judge has ruled New York City is officially in contempt over its "grave" conditions at the Rikers Island prison complex, with a federal takeover of the system now seen ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A Long Island man was sentenced Wednesday to ten years in prison for plotting to attack synagogues in New York City. Christopher Brown, 23, pleaded guilty to possessing a ...