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

A 27-year-old man named Dashawn Jenkins died on Monday night while locked up on Rikers Island, marking the fifth death on ...

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

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

The young detainee who appears to have died of a ruptured appendix and infection began showing serious medical issues in the ...

The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission convened by the City Council ...

Rikers Island will not shutter by the legally mandated deadline in 2027, according to a report released last week by the ...

An independent commission says the facility can still be shuttered despite a jail population that exceeds the capacity of ...

Her death is the fourth death of a Rikers detainee so far this year, and follows that of Ariel Quidone, 20, last week and ...

A 21-year-old being held on Rikers Island died over the weekend, marking the third detainee death seen at the troubled jail ...

In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 ...

While the penal island has a maximum capacity of at least 10,000 in multiple buildings, the population increase jeopardizes ...