An exhibit at the Herbert Von King Cultural Arts Center in Bed Stuy features artwork by Rikers Island detainees.

A former corrections officer from Westchester County who admitted to smuggling drugs into Rikers Island in exchange for ...

The New York City Department of Correction confirms Dashawn Jenkins, 27, died while in custody Monday night, just one day after his birthday. Officials say staff noticed he was visibly ill while ...

A New York judge has ordered city officials to temporarily halt discussions with the Trump administration allowing federal ...

The same week, a non-renewed, non-transformed Rikers Island reported its fifth inmate death of the year: Dashawn Jenkins, 27, who died of a ruptured appendix after days of obvious symptoms that jail ...

FBI agents arrested two New York correction officers Wednesday accused of beating to death a Rikers Island inmate, Newsweek reports. A pretrial detainee, 52-year-old Ronald Spear, was killed in ...

In a written order Monday, Justice Mary Rosado, of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, barred the city from “taking any steps toward negotiating, signing, or implementing any Memorandum of Understanding ...