NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A Rikers Island inmate was indicted on charges she punched a correction officer in the face, causing a “deep gash” that required stitches, prosecutors said Wednesday.

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... correctional facilities in the US, inmates there await being shipped to a federal ...

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Wednesday was sent to the Rikers Island facility that houses inmates with contagious diseases, city records show. Weisselberg's new address at the ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A Department of Correction captain and two guards were suspended for ...

he recalls. That prison sentence sent him to Rikers Island for a four-month sentence. He got out in two months for good behavior, but life after prison was where his real struggles began.

Rikers Island is home to some of the most notorious and violent jails in the world. It is located in the East River in New York City. The majority of its detainees have not yet been convicted of a ...

Rikers Island has made a name for itself as a campus of prisons filled with stories of abuse, murder, inedible food and rats, according to a USA Today report from 2017. Rikers primarily houses people ...