After a long night of dancing in the streets of Crown Heights, a bus full of men, and bochurim headed out to Rikers Island.

Within seconds, nearly a dozen teenage detainees pour out of their cells and converge on Kalief Browder. Surveillance footage from 2010 captures the relentless beating inside a Rikers Island housing ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A federal monitor overseeing Rikers Island blasted the city’s jail boss for muzzling his underlings from speaking with court-appointed watchdogs at the troubled jail — even after he was warned of ...

A New York City man involved in the vicious attack that killed a Los Angeles-based rapper is demanding a whopping $1 million ...

After months with only commissary product options, the inmates spoke with Allure about the impact of having their hair and makeup done before their release.

“Like the Jewish people in Egypt, you too hold fast to your faith in the face of the unknown,” Mamdani’s letter read. When 150 inmates of Rikers Island, New York City’s largest jail complex, attended ...

The $4 million settlement resolves a 2023 lawsuit that argued that inadequate supervision and medical treatment in the jail ...

Alexa Herrera is a digital producer with the CBS News New York web team. She previously worked with WUFT and WTSP in Florida as a digital producer. She's a Long Island native. Detainees at Rikers ...