A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in ...

The New York City Department of Correction confirms Dashawn Jenkins, 27, died while in custody Monday night, just one day after his birthday. Officials say staff noticed he was visibly ill while ...

The same week, a non-renewed, non-transformed Rikers Island reported its fifth inmate death of the year: Dashawn Jenkins, 27, who died of a ruptured appendix after days of obvious symptoms that jail ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- ICE agents are returning to Rikers Island to coordinate detaining inmates from city criminal cases, under ...

are again allowed to be granted office space on Rikers, which currently locks up nearly 7,000 inmates, mostly pre-trial detainees. The mayoral order says that the federal personnel on the island ...

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Chelsia Rose Marcius For years, a handful of federal immigration agents worked out of a trailer office at the jail complex on Rikers Island in New York City.

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ‘ administration is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at Rikers Island to work on gang and drug-related criminal investigations in the ...