City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called Rikers Island a “death camp” Monday even as she admitted the troubled jail complex ...

Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. At least 38 people have died ...

Local residents are riled as late-night construction went through the night for weeks at a time, ending as late (or early) as ...

Defendants who were found unfit to stand trial waited on Rikers an average of 79 days as of last fall, according to the ...

The Adams administration unloaded on a Brooklyn lawmaker who championed the closure of Rikers Island then complained about ...

Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other New York City lockups that ...

The death was the fifth since Feb. 19, when Ramel Powell died at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. That total matches the ...

A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in ...

A newly-released report from the Independent Rikers Commission—commonly known as the Lippman Commission—lays out an urgent ...

In the early 1800s, Richard Riker, a descendant of the family who owned Rikers Island, participated in a kidnapping ring for ...

A retired jail guard at Rikers Island was shot and killed by police after he charged at Long Island officers with a knife, ...