In May 2023, after a spike in deaths on Rikers Island, city jail officials suddenly stopped notifying the media shortly after ...

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.

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.

Even before it was a prison, Rikers Island was home to crooks. Magistrate Richard Riker, owner of the island in the early 1800s, was a descendant of the German-Dutch von Rycken family, which had he… ...

The departure of New York City's Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Molina provides a much-needed opportunity for fresh thinking on how to combat over-crowding at Rikers Island.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has lost another round in his efforts to allow federal agents to open an office on Rikers Island. CBS News New York political reporter Marcia Kramer has the story.

The former commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, Louis A. Molina, right, has been accused of covering up incidents on Rikers Island to make the jails seem safer than they ...

The end of Rikers Island, a stain on New York, can't come soon enough In 1985, I was sentenced to Rikers after pleading guilty to a drug charge. It was a brutal and inhumane experience.