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

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

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

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

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

Late last month, city Correction Department officials asked the jail oversight board to expand bed capacity in certain Rikers ...

The Queens public defender arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-laced papers to a Rikers Island inmate has been ...

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

An inmate was found dead in his cell on Rikers Island Sunday morning, marking the seventh death this year at the embattled New York City lockup.. Curtis Davis, 44, had been held behind bars on ...

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