Two inmates died at the Rikers Island corrections comples on Friday. Helayne Seidman Less than an hour later, James Maldanado, 56, suffered a medical emergency at approximately 4:30 p.m. while on ...

The death toll at Rikers Island jumped to seven this year with two men dying at the notorious jail Friday, officials said. The facility has already surpassed the number of inmate deaths in all of ...

Prisoners' Rights Project Report Card of Rikers Mary Lynne Werlwas, head of the Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project, offers her perspective on how Rikers is doing.