NEW YORK-- New York City has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a Rikers Island inmate who suffered severe brain damage after he attempted to hang himself while ...
Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs of East Harlem has used his experience to help people reinvent themselves, including a high-flying ...
Three former correction officers, one program counselor, a contractor, and an inmate are facing federal charges, according to court documents. Former Rikers Island correction officer Carlos Rivera ...
There is hope. Video obtained by the NBC New York I-Team shows Rikers Island correction officers failing to intervene — for nearly eight minutes — as an inmate hangs himself in their plain view.
Their actions made Rikers Island “less safe, for inmates and officers alike,” Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement, adding that the ...
These days, as an inmate at Rikers Island — New York City’s largest and most notorious jail — Padilla, 45, has drawn even closer to Judaism. Since being imprisoned at the 413-acre East River ...
A Rikers Island inmate has been indicted on charges of second-degree Assault and other offenses after allegedly attacking a ...
Rikers Island inmates assaulted two correction officers in separate attacks Sunday, leaving the guards with gruesome injuries to their face and hands, The Post has learned. In the first attack ...
NEW YORK - An astonishing 719 sexual assault lawsuits have been filed against the Department of Correction by female inmates ...
Sex pest Harvey Weinstein moved back into Rikers Island Friday afternoon ... in a special cell unit at Rikers’ West Facility for inmates with medical issues, his spokesperson confirmed to ...
“Rikers Island is less safe, for inmates and officers alike, when corrections officers and others in positions of public trust accept bribes to smuggle contraband,” U.S. Attorney Damian ...
These days, as an inmate at Rikers Island — New York City’s largest and most notorious jail — Padilla, 45, has drawn even closer to Judaism. Since being imprisoned at the 413-acre East River ...