“The nicknames that it has, the Bridge of Pain, Gladiator School, Torture Island, the name speaks for itself.” Those are the ...

The Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice has drawn attention to the August 31, 2027, legal deadline for the closure ...

Rikers Island is a 10-facility jail complex in New York City with capacity for up to 15,000 people — and has long been ...

A 41-year-old man held on Rikers Island on a murder charge died Tuesday morning, marking the seventh person to lose their ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly mourned an accused career criminal killer who died on Rikers Island this week -- and the family ...

Protests in Chinatown against the city’s drive to build a “jailscraper” there are A fresh warning that this “replace Rikers” ...

More than 100 inmates at the sprawling Rikers Island correctional facility gathered in a gymnasium at the complex's main intake center to watch Wednesday's semifinal match between England and ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's post mourning Clarence Woodward, a murder suspect who died on Rikers Island, sparked ...

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

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 ...

The City Council is currently drafting a bill to extend the deadline to close Rikers and replace it with four borough-based ...

A woman accused of making fraudulent bank transactions in Connecticut was taken into custody at Rikers Island in New York and extradited back to Wethersfield, where she was booked on multiple charges.