It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious ...

The officer failed to provide lifesaving aid to the 43-year-old man as he had a seizure in a cell, according to an official report.

A Rikers corrections officer said he cried when he was cleared of charges he sexually assaulted a coworker on the job – ...

TO some it is known as ‘Gladiator School’ because of the sheer amount of blood-soaked brawls that stain the floors. Others call it ‘Torture Island’, where freezing water pours through the ceiling ...

Three correction officers have been suspended following the death of a man incarcerated at New York City's troubled Rikers Island, jail officials said. Officers found Ardit Billa, 29, unresponsive in ...

An inmate at Rikers Island died in his prison cell Saturday morning – marking the ninth reported prisoner death at the troubled New York City jail this year, officials said. Ardit Billa, 29, who was ...

Three correction officers have been suspended following the death of an inmate at New York City’s Rikers Island, a facility long plagued by crisis, mismanagement, and violence. The death is the latest ...

The death of the 29-year-old, who was found in his cell after midnight, is the latest of several at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York. By Samantha Latson The city’s Department of Correction ...

A man held on Rikers Island who was waiting two months to be transferred upstate to serve a prison sentence died Wednesday night, officials said — making him the third detainee death in the city jails ...

Three New York City Department of Correction employees have been suspended following another death at Rikers Island, sources say. According to sources, two correction officers and a captain have been ...

On a humid summer afternoon in Washington Heights, a teenage James Adames lit up in an alleyway he thought was safe. The ritual was familiar, but so was the risk. At just 16, he was stopped, frisked, ...