Rikers Island inmates assaulted two correction officers ... hanged himself in 2015. His death sparked a wave of reform efforts that led to the city’s decision to stop using solitary for juvenile ...

Rikers Island has a lengthy history of problems with its solitary confinement practices, which came under intense scrutiny after former inmate Kalief Browder, 22, hanged himself in 2015. His death ...

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 ...

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.

Olga Tsvyk: Sleepy, then coma, then death. Rodgers learned that Phenazepam ... Victoria's time behind bars has already been ...

Olga Tsvyk: Sleepy, then coma, then death. Rodgers learned ... In 2018 at Rikers Island jail in New York, she was assaulted by fellow inmates and suffered multiple injuries to her face.

The Kauai jail and two other facilities in Hawaii have the chairs, which require high levels of force to immobilize inmates ...

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 ...

Diller’s death was the ... release of prison inmates on compassionate grounds. Compassion for criminals, not for their future victims. Now we all are living on Rikers Island.