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 ...

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

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

“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 ...

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 ...