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 ...

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 ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup ... facilities in the US, inmates there await being ...

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Wednesday directed New York City officials to begin developing a plan for a possible federal takeover of Rikers Island, following a hearing in Manhattan in a long ...

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 ...