Inmate Kelvin Williams received a five-year sentence for sexually abusing a transgender inmate and for separate incidents ...

Aramis Furse has become the 14th person to die in or immediately after he was found “unwell” in his Rikers Island cell.

A former Rikers Island detainee has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing two city correction officers of sexually ...

A convicted rapist has been sentenced for forcing a transgender inmate at Rikers Island into performing sex acts three years ...

According to Amsterdam News, a 32-year-old Black man named Aramis Furse has become the 14th person to die while in the ...

Aramis Furse “appeared unwell” at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center around 2 a.m. and was taken to Mount Sinai Queens ...

An inmate at Rikers Island died early Sunday morning after being found unwell in his cell marking the 14th death at the jail ...

Aramis Furse died after a city correction officer noticed he “appeared unwell” in his cell in the jail’s Otis Bantum ...

So far this year 14 people have died at Rikers or shortly after being released from custody there, according to Gothamist’s ...

A 32-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Sunday morning, becoming the 14th person to die in the Department of Correction’s ...

A Rikers Island correctional officer will be fired after being found guilty this week of sexually abusing a woman in his Queens home – a decision that comes years after he was first accused by ...

Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has seized control of the facility from New York City and placed it under the ...