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.

Families and criminal justice advocates have long urged jail officials to notify them about deaths and other emergencies in ...

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 ...

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. Advocates say Rikers faces a humanitarian crisis.

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.

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.

Two inmates in the Department of Correction’s custody died within an hour and a half of each other on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon. Inmates 37-year-old Benjamin Kelly and 56-year-old James ...

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

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

The Rikers Island jail complex is shown in the Bronx borough of New York, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Credit: AP/Ted Shaffrey “Court orders must be followed, and this department has not followed ...

Swain said she would also rule before then on whether to hold the city in contempt of long-standing court orders mandating reforms at Rikers, which houses more than 6,000 inmates on an island in ...