The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and ...

In May 2023, after a spike in deaths on Rikers Island, city jail officials suddenly stopped notifying the media shortly after ...

Rikers Island has a decades-long reputation of spiraling dysfunction, brutality, and even death against those awaiting trial. The East River prison allowed Eyewitness News onto their grounds to ...

A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...

Veo Kelly has been held without bail on Rikers Island awaiting trial for attacking Samyia and Sanyia Spain, 19.

The Howard County Police Department continues its search for a second suspect in the April 14, 1982 killing of Ruth Thorp in an Elkridge Econo Lodge.

A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

One of the ironies of Nunez’s story, and something that still rankles him, is he received just $75,000 in a settlement in ...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams criticizes rival Mamdani's affordability proposals, contrasting their backgrounds and socialist policies ...

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

The wrongful-death lawsuit against the two men comes after the inmates were awarded a combined $367,500 from New York City as ...