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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.' ...

Even in a place like Rikers Island, light can break through. This year’s pre-Shavuos celebration transformed the prison into ...

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 ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

She entered Rikers on a robbery charge in 1996, when more than 13,700 women passed through New York City jails — the highest number of women ever detained pretrial in the city’s history.

A transgender woman is suing the City of New York for $22 million after she was placed in a Rikers Island male detention center, where she was allegedly assaulted and harassed. Ali Miles, who goes ...

Faith Ringgold mural will be transferred from women’s prison to the Brooklyn Museum . The work, dedicated to incarcerated women on Rikers Island, was completed in 1972 and was once almost ...