The otherwise healthy young man who died at Elmhurst Hospital after just over a week on Rikers Island had a ruptured appendix ...

Ariel Quidone had been held in the Robert N. Davoren Center at Rikers since March 7 after he was arrested in Manhattan in ...

A Lower East Side man likely died of untreated appendicitis hours after his release from Rikers, according to his family, who ...

A 21-year-old being held on Rikers Island died over the weekend, marking the third detainee death seen at the troubled jail ...

A 21-year-old man died after becoming critically ill in Department of Correction custody last week, according to his family — ...

A report by the Lippman Independent Commission challenges the city’s acquiescence toward failing to replace the existing dilapidated jails.

The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission convened by the City Council ...

A man awaiting arraignment on low-level drug charges at a Lower Manhattan courthouse died early Wednesday, law enforcement ...

The NYPD is investigating how a Brooklyn man died while in custody at Brooklyn Criminal Court on Friday morning, just weeks ...

A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time ...

Sean Duffy, secretary of transportation, demanded information about crime in the subway system. But transit watchers saw a ...