A picture she made in 1971 caused a minor scandal—minor for anyone but the artist and the growing number of women prisoners on Rikers Island ... end behind bars. One inmate suggested an idea ...

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 ...

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, causing injuries severe enough to require emergency surgery, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

he recalls. That prison sentence sent him to Rikers Island for a four-month sentence. He got out in two months for good behavior, but life after prison was where his real struggles began.

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 ...

That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...

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.