There is hope. Video obtained by the NBC New York I-Team shows Rikers Island correction officers failing to intervene — for nearly eight minutes — as an inmate hangs himself in their plain view.

NEW YORK-- New York City has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a Rikers Island inmate who suffered severe brain damage after he attempted to hang himself while ...

The city has agreed to pay $28.7 million to the family of a Rikers Island inmate left severely brain damaged during a suicide attempt he made while jail guards watched, court records show.

Rikers Island inmates assaulted two ... which came under intense scrutiny after former inmate Kalief Browder, 22, hanged himself in 2015. His death sparked a wave of reform efforts that led ...

New York City has agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a suspect being held on Rikers Island that exposed serious breakdowns by both correction and medical staff ...

A woman who was jailed at Rikers Island in New York has detailed the abuse she says she suffered at the hands of prison guards. It’s reportedly been eight years since "Jeny" was released from ...

De Los Santos and Webster are both Bronx residents, and Washington and Davila are Brooklyn residents. All six defendants ...

Madeline Feliciano alleges three Rikers Island correction officers and a captain waited nearly eight minutes before helping her grandson, Nicholas Feliciano when he attempted suicide in a jail ...

The actress tells PEOPLE she felt compelled to help rehabilitate young men serving time at Rikers Island, especially after becoming a mom Amanda Edwards/Getty Actress La La Anthony is currently ...

These days, as an inmate at Rikers Island — New York City’s largest and most notorious jail — Padilla, 45, has drawn even closer to Judaism. Since being imprisoned at the 413-acre East River ...