Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

After NYC Department of Correction (DOC) confirmed on Saturday, June 21, that two additional people have died on or in ...

The beleaguered jail has been under the supervision of a federal monitor since 2015 because of pervasive problems.

City officials have now named both men who died in Department of Correction custody, just hours apart from each other in ...

MANHATTAN (WABC) -- Two men in custody have died while on a bus en route to Rikers Island. The cause of their deaths is under investigation. The NYC Department of Corrections issued a statement saying ...

From June 4-15, the 24th annual Tribeca Film festival played host to a catalogue of some of the year’s most anticipated ...

Adam Kamagate was being detained on Rikers Island after the death of his son when he planned the scheme, prosecutors said.

In a preliminary injunction, the court agreed that the move appeared to be a “quid pro quo” with the Trump administration in ...

A public defender with a Queens nonprofit mired in controversy was hauled off in handcuffs after he was caught smuggling 130 sheets of suspected THC-soaked paper into ...