The young detainee who appears to have died of a ruptured appendix and infection began showing serious medical issues in the ...

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

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

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

FBI agents arrested two New York correction officers Wednesday accused of beating to death a Rikers Island inmate, Newsweek reports. A pretrial detainee, 52-year-old Ronald Spear, was killed in ...

On Wednesday, Dan was joined Judge Jonathan Lippman, Chair of the Independent Rikers Commission, to discuss plans to close Rikers Island.

City Comptroller Brad Lander and a number of other elected officials are calling on the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice to ...

Rikers Island is more than a place on the New York City map. It’s also an idea about how the city deals with crime and dispenses punishment. And over the past year – not for the first time in recent ...

HONOLULU (Island News) – On Monday, March 24, 2025, work furlough inmate Jason Takaki, 45, returned to custody at ...