Family members of the most recent person to die in custody on Rikers Island said they're struggling to get answers after his ...

New York state prisons will release some inmates early due to a shortage of corrections officers following the recent strike and firings.

Criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams were dismissed by a federal judge Wednesday after the ...

A US judge on Wednesday permanently dismissed corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, weeks after ...

Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. At least 38 people have died ...

A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in ...

The death was the fifth since Feb. 19, when Ramel Powell died at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. That total matches the ...

Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other New York City lockups that ...

Ramel Powell, 38, and Sonia Reyes, 55, both died on Rikers Island earlier this year. Terrence Moore, 55, died in Department ...

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