A Rikers Island inmate died early Tuesday morning in an incident Department of Correction officials say involved “procedural violations.” Felix Taveras, 40, reported a “medical condition ...

The wrongful-death lawsuit against the two men comes after the inmates were awarded a combined $367,500 from New York City as ...

What You Need To Know A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager This past November, the same judge found the ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection.

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater tots ...

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