Rikers Island has seen more inmate suicides this year than the past five combined yet only a fraction of uniformed staff have ...

At least 12 people have died this year inside of New York City’s notorious Rikers ... of his death.” Fourteen local lawmakers who visited the jail complex in September said they were shocked by the ...

At least 12 people have died this year inside of New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex ... The mother of Rikers inmate Brandon Rodriguez, 25, said she learned of her son ...

The charges unveiled Wednesday implicate three officers for alleged crimes surrounding the death of Ronald Spear, a sickly pretrial inmate who died on Dec. 19, 2012, after being beaten on the floor of ...

EAST ELMHURST, Queens — An inmate and two firefighters suffered minor injuries after a fire broke out at the Rikers Island infirmary ... Sondheim's death was announced by his Texas-based ...

A federal jury delivered a guilty-on-all-counts verdict Thursday against a former corrections officer who kicked an inmate at Rikers Island to death in 2012. MANHATTAN (CN) — Former Rikers Island ...