Family members of the most recent person to die in custody on Rikers Island said they're struggling to get answers after his ...

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

In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 ...

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

Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. At least 38 people have died ...

Rikers Island is more than a place on the New York City map. It’s also an idea about how the city deals with crime and dispenses punishment. And over the past year – not for the first time in recent ...

A report by the Lippman Independent Commission challenges the city’s acquiescence toward failing to replace the existing dilapidated jails.

The death was the fifth since Feb. 19, when Ramel Powell died at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. That total matches the ...

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 ...

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 ...