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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The city’s ambitious plan to close Rikers Island took a major step forward after the Adams administration this month tapped two construction firms to build a new lockup in lower Manhattan ...

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 … ...

Family of Rikers inmate who suffered brain damage says troubled jail complex must be closed 03:11. NEW YORK-- New York City has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of ...