It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... the actual physical strip search began. Inmates must then change into ill-fitting ...

BRONX, N.Y. — A Rikers Island inmate has been indicted on multiple charges, including arson and assault, after allegedly starting a fire in his cell and slashing two New York City Department of ...

Rikers Island has made a name for itself as a campus of prisons filled with stories of abuse, murder, inedible food and rats, according to a USA Today report from 2017. Rikers primarily houses people ...

According to the Dallas Township Police Department, on November 14, officers extradited Ronny Almanzar Jimenez from Rikers Island, New York, to face charges for a 2023 theft in […] WBRE Wilkes-Barre ...

When Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the parties in the Rikers Island litigation to come to a joint agreement on the potential structure and powers of a federal receiver tasked ...

he said “she has played a central role in the progress we have made" in bringing down violence on Rikers Island. Now, his administration is proposing a new role for Maginley-Liddie: compliance ...

28. The U.S. Justice Department released a report after an investigation of Rikers Island found “a pattern and practice of conduct at Rikers that violates the constitutional rights of adolescent ...

By Priya Krishna Photographs by Brittainy Newman Priya Krishna and Brittainy Newman twice visited Rikers Island, where they were granted extensive access to a kitchen, its cooks and the detainees ...

Inmates on Rikers Island are on a hunger strike in protest of COVID-19 lockdowns and the poor conditions at the NYC prison facility. About 200 male inmates at the Robert N. Davoren Complex launched ...

Now, as the city is moving slowly towards closing Rikers, Murli is pushing for the department to build a sanctuary where the remaining cats can be gathered, spayed and neutered. The cats in that ...

Harvey Weinstein urged a New York judge on Wednesday to move up his April sexual assault retrial amid continued health issues and "medieval" conditions at New York City's Rikers Island.