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

The NYPD is investigating how a Brooklyn man died while in custody at Brooklyn Criminal Court on Friday morning, just weeks ...

A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time ...

A woman held on Rikers Island died by possible suicide early Thursday, according to correction officials and sources. The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility ...

A Lower East Side man likely died of untreated appendicitis hours after his release from Rikers, according to his family, who ...

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

A 21-year-old being held on Rikers Island died over the weekend, marking the third detainee death seen at the troubled jail ...

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

A 21-year-old man died after becoming critically ill in Department of Correction custody last week, according to his family — ...

Ariel Quidone had been held in the Robert N. Davoren Center at Rikers since March 7 after he was arrested in Manhattan in ...