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

Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. CBS News New York's Jennifer ...

The New York City Department of Correction logo is pictured on the floor of a Rikers Island jail. (Todd Maisel / New York Daily News) “The person remains hospitalized. Because of health privacy ...

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

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

A 27-year-old man held on Rikers Island died Monday night, bringing the total number of jail deaths there to five in 2025. According to the City Department of Correction account, staffers saw that ...

Some 350 convicted people are crowded onto Rikers Island awaiting ... some 2,000 guards who refused to return to work and is operating with about 75% of its normal staff. State prison officials ...

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

A woman died in custody at Rikers Island early Thursday morning, the city’s Department of Correction (DOC) said — making her ...

In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can’t close by 2027, but the reality-denying City Council refuses to admit it. The first of the ...

While the penal island has a maximum capacity of at least 10,000 in multiple buildings, the population increase jeopardizes the $16 billion plan to close Rikers jails by 2027 as required by a de ...