Rikers Island, which has long drawn ire over its conditions, won't be within New York City's purview during the transition.

A federal judge on Tuesday officially seized control of Rikers Island ... to oversee the notorious jail complex that has been plagued by reports of violence, ill treatment, and inmate deaths.

A Rikers Island inmate behind bars for allegedly slashing ... the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most notorious lockup, according to the Department of Correction.

Ramel Powell, 38 - who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year - died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility ...

Much like Rikers today, New York City’s first jails on Blackwell Island were notorious for their horrifying ... environment for both staff and inmates,” according to the Department of Records ...

But a family visiting space at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex is a little ... s Day means everything to me,” said Rikers inmate Nadine Leach, 43, as she watched her ...

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 ...

A court fight over Rikers Island’s future has produced thousands of pages about the jail complex’s troubled state. Inmate authors have produced thousands more. By Corey Kilgannon A female ...