Family members of the most recent person to die in custody on Rikers Island said they're struggling to get answers after his ...

Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. At least 38 people have died ...

Rikers Island is more than a place on the New York City map. It’s also an idea about how the city deals with crime and dispenses punishment. And over the past year – not for the first time in recent ...

Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other New York City lockups that ...

Their book reveals first-hand accounts of the brutality and banality of everyday Rikers life. “The violence and utter ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

An independent group looking into the dismantling of Rikers Island on Wednesday said the city's plan to close the jail ...

Federal judge will hear arguments on potential takeover of New York City’s troubled jail system A federal judge has agreed to begin a process that could wrest control of New York City's troubled ...