A 40-year-old man died Tuesday while being detained on Rikers Island, marking the second death within 24 hours to occur at ...

Alleged package thief Umais Khan, 40, died while in custody at the notorious Rikers Island, marking the fourth death under ...

Ahead of Shavuos, a bus of bochurim and volunteers traveled from Brooklyn to Rikers Island for a special program focused on ...

In 2017, it was announced that New York City's most infamous prison, would be shutting its doors. Now, almost a decade later, it's not clear whether they city will meet the mandated deadline for ...

Mamdani announced the new role of a 'close Rikers czar' ...

Rajpattie Ramkellawan died at the Rose M. Singer Center at 11:13 a.m. after experiencing a “medical emergency,” a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections said. She was provided with medical ...

Two detainees died on Rikers Island in quick succession of each other on Monday and Tuesday as the jail’s top officials were across the Atlantic, touring jails in Europe.

The commissioner of the Department of Correction on Tuesday defended a nearly 600-officer cut proposed by the mayor, despite ...

A 41-year-old woman died in custody at the Rose M. Singer Center on Rikers Island Monday morning, becoming at least the third person to die in the city jail system this year, according to the ...

The deaths of two incarcerated individuals, Umais Khan and Rajpattie Ramkellawan, at Rikers Island within a 24-hour period ...

Stanley Richards, the new commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, pointed this out to me before my first visit to the island. “When you get to the bottom,” he said, “the past, the ...