A woman held on Rikers Island died by possible suicide early Thursday, according to correction officials and sources. The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility ...

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

In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 ...

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

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

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

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

A 21-year-old man suffering from a serious infection who went into medical distress last Thursday in a jail at Rikers Island ...