Ramel Powell, 38, and Sonia Reyes, 55, both died on Rikers Island earlier this year. Terrence Moore, 55, died in Department ...
A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in ...
Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other New York City lockups that ...
Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. CBS News New York's Jennifer ...
A new report says delays in building four replacement jails mean the city will miss the legally mandated Rikers closure date.
City agencies on Thursday held a design workshop at Borough Hall for the Queens jail, one of four facilities slated to ...
While the penal island has a maximum capacity of at least 10,000 in multiple buildings, the population increase jeopardizes ...
A 27-year-old man held on Rikers Island died Monday night, bringing the total number of jail deaths there to five in 2025. According to the City Department of Correction account, staffers saw that ...
In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can’t close by 2027, but the reality-denying City Council refuses to admit it. The first of the ...
That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...
The otherwise healthy young man who died at Elmhurst Hospital after just over a week on Rikers Island had a ruptured appendix ...