The death toll on Rikers Island continued to rise to its second-highest point in the past four years on Monday when a 33-year-old detainee died after allegedly having an allergic reaction in the ...
The sweeping powers of the yet-to-be-named receiver that will soon assume control over much of the city’s jail system were ...
Aramis Furse “appeared unwell” at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center around 2 a.m. and was taken to Mount Sinai Queens Hospital, where he was pronounced dead fewer than 90 minutes ...
Aramis Furse has become the 14th person to die in or immediately after he was found “unwell” in his Rikers Island cell.
Tylik Thomas credits a life-changing initiative on Rikers Island: "I chose to turn my story around, make that 360." ...
Another death on Rikers Island on Sunday has sparked outrage among prison reform advocates. The New York City Department of ...
Each month, Jewish young adults from UWS Base provide company, conversation and Torah learning to those in custody at the city’s most notorious jail. (New York Jewish Week) — Growing up in the Bronx ...
Inmate Kelvin Williams received a five-year sentence for sexually abusing a transgender inmate and for separate incidents ...
Aramis Furse died after a city correction officer noticed he “appeared unwell” in his cell in the jail’s Otis Bantum ...
A 23 year old New York man is accused of stealing £11.7 million in a sophisticated cryptocurrency scam by posing as a ...
A convicted rapist has been sentenced for forcing a transgender inmate at Rikers Island into performing sex acts three years ...