A 54-year-old woman serving a year on Rikers Island for misdemeanor assault died early Thursday, with her son charging the notorious Queens detention center “killed her.” The death, an apparent ...
Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...
A woman died in custody at Rikers Island early Thursday morning, the city’s Department of Correction (DOC) said — making her ...
Joshua Bell, 19, was charged with murder, robbery, burglary and criminal possession of a weapon in the Sept. 9 murder of Ying Zhu Liu, who was callously shot in the face in the hallway of the ...
On Rikers Island in New York, she was forced to remove ... and contributes to the dehumanization of incarcerated people inside American prisons. Strip searches are a common feature of life in ...
By law, the city will be legally barred from using Rikers jails after 2027, but the move-out can happen only if there are ...
It’s the fourth death of a Rikers detainee so far this year, following the death last week of 20-year-old Ariel Quidone, and ...
A new report says delays in building four replacement jails mean the city will miss the legally mandated Rikers closure date.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams says one of the new jails being built to replace Rikers will now be dedicated to inmates with mental ...