“Rikers Island is less safe, for inmates and officers alike, when corrections officers and others in positions of public trust accept bribes to smuggle contraband,” Acting U.S. Attorney Edward ...

As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.

The recent death of Charizma Jones at Rikers Island has intensified scrutiny of ... accessing her cell six times before her death. Fellow inmates attempted to provide basic care, applying ice ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... correctional facilities in the US, inmates there await being shipped to a federal ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

When Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the parties in the Rikers Island litigation to come to a joint agreement on the potential structure and powers of a federal receiver tasked ...

That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...

The Department of Corrections is planning to open similar centers at other facilities on Rikers, according to a news release. “Having these resources available to them on-island will better ...

he said “she has played a central role in the progress we have made" in bringing down violence on Rikers Island. Now, his administration is proposing a new role for Maginley-Liddie: compliance ...