A 32-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Sunday morning, becoming the 14th person to die in the Department of Correction’s ...

A state judge in New York will continue to block Donald Trump’s administration from opening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office inside Rikers Island jail, one of the largest and most ...

New Yorkers trying to visit loved ones on Rikers Island are routinely forced to endure hours-long waits, inconsistent rules ...

A New York Supreme Court judge has blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams from going ahead with his plan to allow ICE to reopen an office at the Rikers Island jail complex. Judge Mary Rosado sided ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Rikers Island is in a crisis of leadership, and outside intervention is needed to stabilize it, the federal monitor wrote to a judge ahead of an emergency hearing. The city has ...

(Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday said she is taking control of New York's troubled Rikers Island jail complex away from city officials and appointing an independent official to oversee it, ...

Another death on Rikers Island on Sunday has sparked outrage among prison reform advocates. The New York City Department of ...

Two more detainees died while in the custody of the city over the last week — adding to an alarming trend that also saw a Rikers Island inmate found dead, cops and sources said. Musa Cetin, 29 – a ...

Legal Aid Society's evaluation of New York City jail complex's progress. — -- When New York City settled a class-action lawsuit over abuses at Rikers Island, officials agreed to implement reforms ...

DITMARS (WABC) -- On Wednesday night, two young correction officers can't shake the image, and will never forget the sound of their sister officer screaming for her life. "It felt like an eternity, I ...