A Correction officer found the man – whose name has not been released pending family notification – lying on the floor of a ...

A former Rikers Island guard was convicted of felony charges after prosecutors say he planted a weapon inside the cell of a ...

The man, who was identified late Tuesday as Edwin Quispe, 33, was found unresponsive in a bathroom at the Eric M. Taylor ...

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 ...

Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. At least 38 people have died since New York City Mayor Eric Adams assumed office in 2022.

Click HERE to watch this interactive video. Rikers Island: the very name has long been synonymous with violence, fear, abuse of inmates -- including adolescents and the mentally ill.

Two inmates in the Department of Correction’s custody died within an hour and a half of each other on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon. Inmates 37-year-old Benjamin Kelly and 56-year-old James ...