The death of Christopher Rodriguez is the first at the medical unit, which opened in April at Bellevue Hospital, for people ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – A 36-year-old died Wednesday at a first-of-its-kind medical facility to help close the notorious Rikers Island jail, according to the Department of Corrections. Christopher ...

A woman accused of making fraudulent bank transactions in Connecticut was taken into custody at Rikers Island in New York and ...

Former inmates say they went “weeks without feeling the sun touch their face.” ...

A New York City Department of Correction captain died while on duty after suffering a medical emergency on Rikers Island, officials said Friday. Captain Keisha Nicks, a 22-year DOC veteran, was ...

Capt. Keisha Nicks, a 22-year veteran of the New York City Department of Correction who most recently supported employees ...

A person in custody at Rikers Island died Sunday morning, the second in-custody death at the infamous jail system in just one ...

Riker's Island has a reputation as one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, having been described as "an ongoing human rights crisis" and "hell, plain and simple." Now a group of former ...

Rikers Island for the most part makes headlines for violence and disorder, so much so that New York City has moved to close the notorious jail complex. But on Tuesday, there was a palpable shift in ...

Four former and current Rikers Island guards and a city Transit Authority worker nicknamed “Heavy Pockets” were arrested for taking part in a $3 million check fraud scheme, according to the feds.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s official World Cup guide lists no less than 100 free places to take in soccer’s biggest tournament on big screens. One place that isn’t listed? The city’s notorious ...

Rikers Island is back in the headlines, but this time, it is because New York City is trying to move one step closer to shutting part of it down for good. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration ...