Two city correction officers were left with serious injuries after the attacks, which happened in two different holding areas ...
An ailing state prisoner who died in city custody last week had just won a new trial five years after his conviction for ...
The city Medical Examiner’s office has yet to issue a cause of death, but a source familiar with the case said Savage was suffering from cancer. Savage had been transferred to Rikers Island on ...
The city Medical Examiner’s office has yet to issue a cause of death, but a source familiar with the case said Savage was suffering from cancer. Savage had been transferred to Rikers Island on Nov. 30 ...
“I’ve been on Rikers Island more than any mayor in the history of the city talking with inmates and correction ... assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall ...
Long before Kalief Browder’s tragic story — jailed at 16, three years spent at Rikers Island for want of $3,000 ... an end to solitary confinement for inmates under age 18.
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 ...
Yet between 2021 and 2023, people died at rates that exceed some of the United States’ most troubled jails, including the one on Rikers Island in New York ... health checks and in-cell wellness checks ...
New York City has agreed to pay the family of Nicholas Feliciano $28 million after video shows correction officers doing ...