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

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

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

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

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

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

Ms. McCarter says that one of the most traumatic parts of the seven months she spent on Rikers Island was how women were searched while they were menstruating. Prison guards would force them to ...

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

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 ...