A Bronx jury Tuesday acquitted a correction captain while convicting an officer for their roles in a 2019 incident during which a Rikers Island detainee tried to hang himself ... agreed to pay $28 ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... await being shipped to a federal prison for long stretches, or are short-timers ...

because “I don’t know how much longer I can hold on” while the fallen mogul remains imprisoned in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail. Judge Curtis Farber on Wednesday morning set ...

Cross Center, marking the 16th death at Rikers Island in 2021 – more fatalities than the last two years combined and the most since 2016. Hundreds of incarcerated people staged a days-long hunger ...

Harvey Weinstein's legal team fear he will die in the "torture chamber or medieval dungeon" Rikers Island Prison, where he has ... "the inevitable outcome is death." Weinstein, 72, was diagnosed ...

This summary is reviewed by TRD Staff. Former HFZ Capital exec Nir Meir was denied a significant bail reduction and will remain in Rikers Island jail unless he can pay $5 million cash or $7.5 ...

A woman held on Rikers Island claims in a shocking 33-page handwritten ... paints a disturbing picture of a lawless environment in the women’s jail with rampant drug use, bullying of weaker ...

dysfunction and racially disparate incarceration at Rikers Island, last year brought a glimmer of relief. In a long-running federal court case ostensibly settled nearly a decade ago in 2015, Judge ...

New York’s Department of Corrections has opened a wellness center for guards on Rikers ... jail and the meditation room helps to calm him both after his two-hour commute from Long Island ...

Mr. Reina, 56, is a cook on Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious 415-acre jail complex in Queens. He commutes two hours from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to prepare meals for the jail population and ...