NEW YORK — Kenneth Williams spent his whole life in Brooklyn, but it wasn't until a night in 2018 when he crossed a narrow footbridge in shackles, that he learned about New York City’s last floating ...

Docked along the East River is a barge used by New York City to house inmates awaiting trial. The floating jail called was meant as a temporary fix for overcrowding of Rikers Island in the 90’s. Three ...

A man held on Rikers Island who was waiting two months to be transferred upstate to serve a prison sentence died Wednesday night, officials said — making him the third detainee death in the city jails ...