A former Rikers Island guard was convicted of felony charges after prosecutors say he planted a weapon inside the cell of a ...

The man, who was identified late Tuesday as Edwin Quispe, 33, was found unresponsive in a bathroom at the Eric M. Taylor ...

A Correction officer found the man – whose name has not been released pending family notification – lying on the floor of a ...

A man detained at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex died on Tuesday due to a medical emergency, jail officials said, ...

For the first time in months, the number of New Yorkers being processed into the state’s prisons is higher than the number ...

Families and criminal justice advocates have long urged jail officials to notify them about deaths and other emergencies in custody more fully.

Rikers Island, located in the East River within spitting distance of Port Morris, the Bronx, and Astoria, Queens, has a foreboding aura that only island lockups have. It is at once amid the city, just ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle ...

The departure of New York City's Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Molina provides a much-needed opportunity for fresh thinking on how to combat over-crowding at Rikers Island. REUTERS ...

Rikers Island is entering a new era with the expected closure of its notorious jail complex. But its toxic past is clouding its future development — and the city still can’t, or won&#82… ...

Intelligencer investigations June 28, 2015 9:00 p.m. Inside Rikers Island, Through the Eyes of the People Who Live and Work There By Maurice Chammah , Simone Weichselbaum , Nick Tabor , Eli Hager ...