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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 ...
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.
A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.
Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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