NYC jail

NEW YORK—New York City’s reform-minded jails commissioner is facing opposition to his plan to put the 250 most dangerous inmates in a new, restrictive cell block on Rikers Island that would allow them to be locked away for up to 17 hours a day.

NEW YORK—New York City is using a $400,000 federal grant to review suicides and acts of self-harm in city jails with an approach commonly applied when things go wrong in the medical and aviation industries, officials said on Tuesday.