Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. At least 38 people have died ...
Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other New York City lockups that ...
The death was the fifth since Feb. 19, when Ramel Powell died at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. That total matches the ...
A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in ...
Family members of the most recent person to die in custody on Rikers Island said they're struggling to get answers after his ...
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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The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility and is the fourth fatality connected to New ...
The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission convened by the City Council ...
An independent commission says the facility can still be shuttered despite a jail population that exceeds the capacity of ...
The population on Rikers Island has risen to ... In order to reduce the jail population, the report suggested that the city ...
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