The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

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 ...

A Rikers Island correction officer suffered bleeding on the brain and underwent emergency surgery after she was struck in the ...

(NewsNation) — Former convicts previously represented by Luigi Mangione’s lawyer told NewsNation on Thursday that high-profile inmates ... New York City’s Rikers Island.

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 ...

Ansari said Weinstein has "a laundry list" of medical conditions ... has been plagued by violence and deaths of inmates, Nineteen people died in custody at Rikers Island in 2022, nine more died ...