Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in ...

Luis Bernier has languished on Rikers Island since March 12 because he can’t get transferred to prison due to the ripples ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Donna Hylton, a women's rights and prison reform advocate who was held on Rikers Island as a teenager, said the women's transfer would bring some benefit, but she cautioned that in order to ...

Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has seized control of the facility from New York City and placed it under ...

The prison's reputation as filthy, violent and corrupt is not in dispute. Over time, women were transferred from the original women's detention hall on Rikers Island.

As did the population on Rikers Island, which hit 5,400 detainees in February 2020, which, at the time, was the smallest population on Rikers in decades. Then, the pandemic struck.

Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer Fears He Will Die in Rikers Island Due to Mistreatment by “Vindictive” Prison Officials “He had blood spattered on him," his attorney Imran H. Ansari says.

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.' ...

At least two women allege that Anthony Martin Jr., a correction officer at Rikers Island, sexually assaulted them while they were detained at the women’s jail.