It’s the fourth death of a Rikers detainee so far this year, following the death last week of 20-year-old Ariel Quidone, and ...

The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility and is the fourth fatality connected to New ...

Mayor Eric Adams says one of the four new community jails being built to replace Rikers will now be dedicated to inmates with ...

A new report says delays in building four replacement jails mean the city will miss the legally mandated Rikers closure date.

The otherwise healthy young man who died at Elmhurst Hospital after just over a week on Rikers Island had a ruptured appendix ...

The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission convened by the City Council ...

A woman died in custody at Rikers Island early Thursday morning, the city’s Department of Correction (DOC) said — making her ...

Rikers Island will not shutter by the legally mandated deadline in 2027, according to a report released yesterday by the ...

The cause of death was not immediately clear. Four other people have died this year in city jails or just after being ...

Lefty Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer is pushing the city to feed jailbirds “farm-to-table” meals, like ones served up at ...

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

Adrienne Adams convened the commission in the somewhat more peaceful days of 2023, before she was challenging Eric Adams’ reelection. The 114-page report found, in short, that Rikers can’t close by ...