Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other New York City lockups that ...

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

Ramel Powell, 38, and Sonia Reyes, 55, both died on Rikers Island earlier this year. Terrence Moore, 55, died in Department ...

A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time ...

The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission convened by the City Council ...

The young detainee who appears to have died of a ruptured appendix and infection began showing serious medical issues in the ...

A 21-year-old being held on Rikers Island died over the weekend, marking the third detainee death seen at the troubled jail ...

While the penal island has a maximum capacity of at least 10,000 in multiple buildings, the population increase jeopardizes ...

Rikers Island will not shutter by the legally mandated deadline in 2027, according to a report released yesterday by the ...

Her death is the fourth death of a Rikers detainee so far this year, and follows that of Ariel Quidone, 20, last week and ...

The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility and is the fourth fatality connected to New ...