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 ...

Veo Kelly has been held without bail on Rikers Island awaiting trial for attacking Samyia and Sanyia Spain, 19.

A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...

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 ...

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

A Manhattan judge on Monday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from going around a municipal law banning solitary confinement in city prisons, including Rikers Island.