The report lands at what the monitor describes as a “critical and uncertain” moment for the jail and Department of Correction ...

Ariel Quidone, 20, died days after his release. A city report found jail staff watched him vomit and did nothing.

An inmate at Rikers Island died in his prison cell Saturday morning – marking the ninth reported prisoner death at the troubled New York City jail this year, officials said. Ardit Billa, 29, who was ...

Violence on Rikers Island remains pervasive as the city waits for a federal judge to appoint a receiver to take over the ...

After a mentally ill Bradley Ballard made a lewd gesture to a female guard at the Rikers Island jail, he was locked in his cell alone for seven increasingly agitated days in which he was denied some ...

The man reportedly brought the iPhone into Rikers Island himself, and metal detectors missed it. In the video, he is seen describing his cell, the food he eats, and shows off a handmade weapon. A ...

THE BRONX — A former Rikers Island guard was convicted of felony charges after prosecutors said he planted a weapon inside the cell of a detainee he had recently beaten up. Dionisio Rosario, a 34-year ...

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The cause of death for Layleen Cubilette-Polanco, a 27-year-old trans woman who was jailed at Rikers Island, was confirmed on Tuesday to be the result of a medical condition that causes seizures.