The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and ...

In May 2023, after a spike in deaths on Rikers Island, city jail officials suddenly stopped notifying the media shortly after ...

A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

Rikers Island has a decades-long reputation of a stem of spiraling dysfunction, brutality, and even death against those awaiting trial. The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 ...

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

Even before it was a prison, Rikers Island was home to crooks. Magistrate Richard Riker, owner of the island in the early 1800s, was a descendant of the German-Dutch von Rycken family, which had he… ...

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

The departure of New York City's Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Molina provides a much-needed opportunity for fresh thinking on how to combat over-crowding at Rikers Island. REUTERS ...

Rikers Island has long struggled to care for mentally ill detainees, with lapses chronicled in regular reports by court monitors appointed to oversee reforms in the jail system. But the problem ...