An inmate at Rikers Island died late Tuesday night while in custody, according to officials. Authorities say Felix Taveras, 40, was in the Anna M. Kross Correctional Facility when he suffered a ...

The Department of Corrections has confirmed a man died while in custody at Rikers Island. Rubu Zhao, 52, was severely injured this past Sunday while being held for a second-degree murder charge in the ...

Two Rikers Island correction officers were suspended after a 39-year-old man died in his jail cell last month — the first person to perish at the long-troubled complex this year, according to a recent ...

A Long Island man who was shot and killed last week in Queens was attending a funeral for an accused drug kingpin who died at ...