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

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

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

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

A Bronx judge warned the violent mugger accused of robbing a 7-year-old boy and slapping his mom that she came “this close to ...

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

Court officials know they need to speed things up to keep the prison population down ahead of the planned Rikers closure.

That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...

“What this woman did makes it more difficult for the real victims of sexual violence in Rikers Island and the jail system — whether they be inmates or they be female corrections officers who ...

Video: Moment sneaky woman 'smuggles drugs to an inmate in NYC's notorious Rikers Island prison by hiding the contraband in her child's diaper' A prison inmate at Rikers Island was caught on ...

Notorious New York City landlord Daniel Ohebshalom finds himself in a familiar spot: a jail cell at Rikers Island. The landlord turned himself into the city sheriff’s office on Wednesday to ...

NEW YORK – A federal judge on Wednesday directed New York City officials to begin developing a plan for a possible federal takeover of Rikers Island ... order handing the jail system over ...