A person in custody at Rikers Island died Sunday morning, the second in-custody death at the infamous jail system in just one week.

New York City officials said an inmate of Rikers Island has died, marking the seventh inmate death this year at the detention ...

A man died on Rikers Island early Tuesday morning after a medical emergency, according to the Department of Correction. He is the second person to die in DOC custody in less than a week. Clarence ...

Clarence Woodward, 41, died Tuesday morning while in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction at the Robert ...

A correction officer found Clarence Woodward suffering a medical emergency at the Robert N. Davoren Center around 5 a.m..

A 41-year-old man who had been held on Rikers Island for over two years was pronounced dead on Tuesday morning.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s response to the death of a Rikers Island detainee has drawn criticism on social ...

Woodward took the life of Jose Miranda with a meat cleaver in a Bronx laundromat in 2024; Miranda’s family rightly calls the ...

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s message about an inmate who died on Rikers Island is upsetting some people. On Tuesday, ...