Harrowing images from New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail show dire conditions, including prisoners being left to sit in their feces, overdosing, and being detained in shower stalls.

Newly obtained images from Rikers Island have shed more light on the deplorable conditions inside the troubled jail system. The photos, presented to Manhattan prosecutors by the Board of ...

Here in New York City, never-before-seen images show people incarcerated in the notorious Rikers Island jail locked in caged showers and sleeping next to a pile of feces.

Rikers Island, New York City’s main prison complex, has long been scrutinized as a hotbed of chaos and violence. Now, new images published in a recent Gothamist exposé give a startling look at ...

Officials in charge of enforcing safe operations at city jails recently shared never-before-seen photos and videos from Rikers Island with assistant district attorneys in Manhattan, giving the ...

Inside a shuttered Rikers Island jail, city investigators in November 2020 discovered a secret lounge with leather couches and a giant TV screen, caches of Correction Department equipment ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

Never-before-seen photos and videos from Rikers Island provide an unsettling look at the “squalid and deadly” conditions in which defendants are held inside the scandal-ridden jail, reports ...

Rikers Island detainees can continue receiving paper mail and packages from family, friends and acquaintances after action by the city Board of Correction on Tuesday. Correction Commissioner Louis … ...

New York City's Rikers Island is prepared for Donald Trump if he is sent to prison for a gag order violation during his criminal trial in Manhattan, according to Mayor Eric Adams.. On Tuesday ...