A new Board of Correction report has backed up allegations detailed in October by the Daily News — that jail staff are ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

A man who died in a Rikers Island jail on Sunday appeared to have been lying dead in his cell for hours before correction staff members discovered his body, according to two people familiar with ...

For nearly 100 years, New York City has been housing its detainees in jail cells on Rikers Island. And for all of that time, the jail complex has been known almost exclusively as a place of ...

Correction officers routinely lock severely mentally ill men in their cells on Rikers Island for weeks and even months in violation of city law, a jail social worker who left the system three ...

The Rikers Island jail complex is shown in the Bronx borough of New York, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island are suing the city claiming they were trapped in their ...

Mayor Eric Adams exceeded his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a new law banning solitary confinement in ...

A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in city custody in fewer than two months. Dashawn Jenkins, 27, succumbed ...

A transgender woman died inside a jail cell of New York’s notorious Rikers Island on Friday afternoon, leading to calls for a thorough investigation. According to NBC News, Layleen Polanco was ...

FILE - The Rikers Island jail complex is shown in the Bronx borough of New York, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island are suing the city claiming they were trapped ...

Inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island are suing the city claiming they were trapped in their cells during a jailhouse fire that injured 20 people last year. The lawsuit filed Friday in ...