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

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

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

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

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

A man died in custody while at Rikers Monday night, becoming the fifth detainee to die in custody at the notorious jail ...

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

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

Harvey Weinstein is sour that he won’t get a party for his 73rd birthday at Rikers Island next week, and made the grim prediction that he won’t live to see another year. The convicted sex offender and ...

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 ...

A 54-year-old woman serving a year on Rikers Island for misdemeanor assault ... Singer Center, which was built as a women’s jail but now also houses men in a high security section.