Aramis Furse has become the 14th person to die in or immediately after he was found “unwell” in his Rikers Island cell.

The death toll on Rikers Island continued to rise to its second-highest point in the past four years on Monday when a 33-year-old detainee died after allegedly having an allergic reaction in the ...

Kyron Randall, 33, accused of beating his roommate to death in a Bronx drug treatment center, died after being taken to ...

A former Rikers Island detainee has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing two city correction officers of sexually ...

Inmate Kelvin Williams received a five-year sentence for sexually abusing a transgender inmate and for separate incidents ...

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. REUTERS ...

For nearly a decade, a federal judge has been pushing to end abuse and violence in the jails on Rikers Island. With chronic staffing shortages, rampant violence and 32 deaths in custody during just ...

Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has seized control of the facility from New York City and placed it under the ...

Vidal Guzman is a campaigner and spokesperson living in New York City. He was incarcerated on Rikers Island when he was 16 and returned when he was 19. He was a member of the East Coast Bloods. Guzman ...

NEW YORK-- A detainee died at Rikers Island on Thursday, making him the ninth person to die while in custody at the troubled jail complex this year. The death happened on the same day the federal ...

A crazed inmate nearly choked out a female correction officer on Rikers Island Friday night — less than five weeks after a different inmate belted a female guard in the face because he wasn’t happy ...

NEW YORK-- New York City has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a Rikers Island inmate who suffered severe brain damage after he attempted to hang himself while ...