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Rikers Island has a decades-long reputation of spiraling dysfunction, brutality, and even death against those awaiting trial. The East River prison allowed Eyewitness News onto their grounds to ...
A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...
Veo Kelly has been held without bail on Rikers Island awaiting trial for attacking Samyia and Sanyia Spain, 19.
A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.
The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...
A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...
Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams criticizes rival Mamdani's affordability proposals, contrasting their backgrounds and socialist policies ...
An apartment on Corson Avenue, near Jersey Street, alleged to be the crew’s base of drug operations was raided by police.
Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in ...
Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...
() — "Border Czar” Tom Homan is vowing to "flood the zone" in New York City with ICE agents if mayoral candidate Zorhan ...