The same week, a non-renewed, non-transformed Rikers Island reported its fifth inmate death of the year: Dashawn Jenkins, 27, who died of a ruptured appendix after days of obvious symptoms that jail ...

New York City councilmembers are set to hold a hearing Wednesday on a new path forward for closing the notorious Rikers Island jail complex, less than a month after an independent commission concl ...

are again allowed to be granted office space on Rikers, which currently locks up nearly 7,000 inmates, mostly pre-trial detainees. The mayoral order says that the federal personnel on the island ...

Federal immigration officials had been barred from the New York City jail complex. The mayor says they can return, but only ...