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 ...
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 ...
Three former correction officers, one program counselor, a contractor, and an inmate are facing federal charges, according to court documents. Former Rikers Island correction officer Carlos Rivera ...
Fewer than one in five inmate complaints on Rikers Island over the last four years ever saw any resolution, including shocking claims of sexual assault, according to a review of jail data.
Five former Rikers Island employees and one inmate are now facing federal charges for their involvement in corruption at the jail. According to criminal complaints unsealed in Manhattan federal ...
Kenneth Webster is seen delivering items to an inmate. (Court Documents) FBI Assistant Director in Charge James Smith added, “This alleged conspiracy permeated Rikers Island, polluting the ...
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 ...
Rikers Island inmates assaulted two correction officers in separate attacks Sunday, leaving the guards with gruesome injuries to their face and hands, The Post has learned. In the first attack ...