The New York Times has obtained video of the 2022 death of Michael Nieves, a mentally ill detainee who mortally wounded himself on Rikers Island.

A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City ...

Rikers Island has a decades-long reputation of spiraling dysfunction, brutality, and even death against those awaiting trial. The East River prison allowed Eyewitness News onto their grounds to ...

Two men died on Rikers Island Friday, raising 2025's death toll to seven and intensifying scrutiny of the jail’s dangerous conditions.

A Rikers Island inmate behind bars for allegedly slashing a stranger with a boxcutter died in custody this week – marking the city’s first detainee death in 2025, officials and sources said.

A federal judge has directed New York City officials to work on a plan for a possible federal takeover of Rikers Island jail.

A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.

Some 350 convicted people are crowded onto Rikers Island awaiting transfer to prisons upstate due to continued ripple effects from the state prison strike, according to jail officials.

The chief medical officer for Rikers Island says the city can’t safely manage the jail, asks the Council to request state or federal assistance.

For nearly 100 years, violence, chaos and death have defined the jails on Rikers Island. Some say that could change with the appointment of a federal receiver, but anyone running the jail complex ...

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...