It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... the actual physical strip search began. Inmates must then change into ill-fitting ...

which was created for the notorious prison at New York’s Rikers Island, a facility that has has proven increasingly deadly as it has become disastrously overcrowded. Advocates for reform have ...

Finally: Ask for supplementary documents, photos, and video, but even if the reports are ... Venters is the author of Life and Death in Rikers Island, which draws on his previous experience as the ...

F-I-N-N-E-L-L W-H-I-T-E The search results land like a discarded ... Her philosophy on inmate care: “If you act right, I treat you right. If you act a fool, me and you gonna fool together.” ...

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, ...

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport ...

A Rikers Island correction officer suffered bleeding on the brain and underwent emergency surgery after she was struck in the ...

he recalls. That prison sentence sent him to Rikers Island for a four-month sentence. He got out in two months for good behavior, but life after prison was where his real struggles began.

By Priya Krishna Photographs by Brittainy Newman Priya Krishna and Brittainy Newman twice visited Rikers Island, where they were granted extensive access to a kitchen, its cooks and the detainees ...

Harvey Weinstein urged a New York judge on Wednesday to move up his April sexual assault retrial amid continued health issues and "medieval" conditions at New York City's Rikers Island.