Multiple city agencies failed to help a man suffering from a mental health crisis in the lead up to his death on Rikers ...

Rikers Island detainee Charizma Jones, who died in July of a horrific skin condition, had a history of mental illness but was ...

If you screw this up in any way, I’m remanding you, which means you could be the richest person on the face of the earth, and ...

Two years ago today, Oct. 22, 2022, my son, Erick Tavira, died on Rikers Island at age 28. He took his own life in a solitary ...

Councilmember Sandy Nurse said she was assaulted by a person in custody during a visit to Rikers Island Tuesday morning — and ...

A locked-up sex offender groped New York City Councilwoman Sandy Nurse during a Tuesday morning tour of Rikers Island, The ...

Curtis Davis hanged himself, according to the medical examiner, but a new lawsuit alleges negligence by guards and says ...

A correction officer was allegedly slashed in the head by a gangbanger during a fight inside troubled Rikers Island on ...

A former Rikers Island correctional officer was cuffed by federal authorities last week after prosecutors said she smuggled ...

Four inmates at Rikers Island have been indicted on charges including first-degree gang assault and first-degree assault in ...

Four City Council members have decried a practice by city jails of locking severely mentally ill people in their cells for ...

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Wednesday, Oct. 9, that four Rikers Island inmates have been charged on ...