The report lands at what the monitor describes as a “critical and uncertain” moment for the jail and Department of Correction ...

Rikers Island is in the spotlight after a guard's suspension following a detainee's death and a lawsuit over another ...

A Rikers Island inmate from Brooklyn died at the jail early Sunday morning – marking the 13th inmate death at the correctional facility this year. Officials say an officer found Aramis Furse unwell in ...

A man held on Rikers Island over accuations he beat to death his roommate in a Bronx drug treatment center died early Monday of a possible allergic reaction — the 15th city jails-linked death this ...

The New York City correction officer accused of leaving her post while a mentally ill inmate “baked to death” in a cell measuring more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit has been criminally charged, the New ...

The Department of Corrections said 32-year-old Aramis Furse was found “unwell” in his jail cell around 2 a.m. on Sunday. He died at a hospital about an hour later. “If you found him ‘unwell,’ then why ...

A man from The Bronx died while in custody at Rikers Island on Sunday. He is the 14th person to die in NYC Department of Corrections custody this year. DOC revealed that Kryon Randall, 33, was taken ...