Women transferred to a state prison because of the crisis at Rikers Island have been threatened with violence and subject to beatings, strip searches and male officers’ ogling as they take sh… ...

A former prisoner in the women’s jail on Rikers Island is suing New York City. Google Maps. Complaints from Doe, then 21, and other inmates about the man’s transfer to their unit were ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday announced that women and transgender people held at the Rikers Island jail complex will be transferred to two state prisons 40 miles north ...

The women transferred from Rikers Island to a state prison will be moved back now that some 1,000 correction officers have returned to work, the Correction Department said Monday.

Rikers Island Prison Officer Known As ‘Champagne’ Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 24 Female Inmates. It took a while for investigators to track down the real identity of 'Champagne.' ...

A former prisoner in the women’s jail on Rikers Island is suing New York City, alleging jail staff ignored her warnings in 2022 that a transgender woman housed among females was actually a man ...

But prison advocates and elected officials have questioned whether the 300 women incarcerated at the Rose M. Singer facility on Rikers Island can be successfully housed together with male inmates ...

This much is clear: New York’s new plan to move women and gender-expansive people off of Rikers Island to a prison 40 miles out of the city is not the long-term solution to the unconscionable ...

Even before it was a prison, Rikers Island was home to crooks. Magistrate Richard Riker, owner of the island in the early 1800s, was a descendant of the German-Dutch von Rycken family, which had he… ...

The Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers Island is the women’s barracks of Rikers Island, opened in 1988 as a $100 million state-of-the-art correctional facility under Mayor Edward Koch.

Aylyn Restitutyo stepped off a bus from Rikers Island, blinking as her eyes readjusted to New York City after 10 difficult years behind bars. She was sent to an in-patient facility, alone, and ...