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 ...

Ariel Quidone had been held in the Robert N. Davoren Center at Rikers since March 7 after he was arrested in Manhattan in ...

An inmate at Rikers Island is indicted for assaulting a correction officer, leading to serious injuries. Robert Ray allegedly ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

The Department of Correction’s civilian watchdog board accused the agency on Tuesday of repeatedly ignoring their authority and enacting changes on Rikers Island behind their backs.

A woman died in custody at Rikers Island early Thursday morning, the city’s Department of Correction (DOC) said — making her ...

Some 350 convicted people are crowded onto Rikers Island awaiting transfer to ... space requirements and allow the Otis Bantum Correctional Center dormitories to increase capacity from 50 to ...

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 ...