Mayor Edward Koch, an early champion of the idea, assured reporters that seasick inmates would be given Dramamine and dismissed questions about the boats’ viability, describing them as “better ...

including the weeks Alba spent jailed at Rikers Island. Bragg oversees the office now prosecuting Trump. Bragg’s office responded Tuesday after news of Trump’s plans emerged. Simon’s death and Alba’s ...

Foster, 21, allegedly attacked a Rikers corrections officer even after she doused him with pepper spray to defend herself ...

FILE - This June 20, 2014 file photo shows the Rikers Island jail complex in New York with the Manhattan ... a symbol of “inhumanity and brutality.” News stories report inmate rapes, beatings and ...

A woman died just hours after being committed to the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, according to NBC affiliate WJAR.

A bouncer at a Brooklyn bar has been arrested for stabbing a disorderly patron to death, police said Monday ... He is being held at a Rikers Island jail pending his next court appearance.

The Rhode Island Department of Corrections said an inmate died Friday night after collapsing while at the facility’s gym. A ...

A Rikers inmate locked up on an attempted murder charge broke a Correction Officer’s arm during an unprovoked attack at the beleaguered jail -- in what the guard's union called ...

The deaths are under investigation and a cause of death is not yet known, the state’s Department of Corrections said. The ...

The Sixth Circuit on Thursday rejected two death-row inmates’ efforts to block their executions, finding they did not prove Ohio’s lethal injection drugs cause serious pain and suffering. CINCINNATI ...

Erica Rutherford — a groundbreaking transgender painter, filmmaker and writer — is the first Prince Edward Island artist to be selected for the prestigious Venice Biennale art show.