The Correction Officers' Benevolent Association is calling for action after three correction officers were reportedly assaulted by an inmate at Rikers Island this weekend.

A Rikers Island detainee suffering from clear signs of medical distress waited for roughly 3 ½ hours in a clinic holding pen ...

Christopher Watler will lead the Board of Correction’s oversight of Rikers Island at a time of major change – and continued ...

A year from now, Rikers Island will still be open, despite a 2019 City Council law mandating that the jail be closed by Aug. 31, 2027. The deadline will be missed. The law will be broken. That law ...

New York City’s embattled jail system saw a whopping 76% spike in penalties handed out to inmates for fights and assaults, new data shows. Arrests in jail also soared as a federal court-appointed ...

Advocates who have been fighting for the closure of Rikers Island for many years rejoiced Monday at the announcement that one of its many jails had shuttered. The Mamdani administration announced on ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) -- Another person has died in New York City custody on Rikers Island, according to the Department of Corrections. Clarence Woodward, 41, was found having a medical emergency at ...

The federal monitor tracking conditions on Rikers Island said the dangerous jail has remained mired in dysfunction and ...

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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 ...

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 rushed ...