Cesar Gabriel Medero Curet, who was being held at the Robert N. Davoren Center, died around 6:03 a.m., according to a DOC ...

A 36-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Tuesday, marking the ninth time someone has died in Department of Correction ...

After years of court battles, debate, and continued concerns about violence and excessive force plaguing the troubled jails system, a federal judge officially appointed former CIA officer Nicholas ...

The former executive director of the Board of Correction and current nominee for the oversight body told lawmakers on Monday that the city should come up with some backup plans to close Rikers Island ...

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 ...

Aug. 26 (UPI) --New York City officials said an inmate of Rikers Island died Tuesday, marking the seventh death of an inmate this year at the detention facility this year. The New York City Department ...

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 ...

“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 ...