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.

Michael Nieves, 40, was awaiting trial on Rikers Island when he tried to kill himself in 2022. The staff response to his suicide drew a harsh rebuke from the New York State attorney general and ...

The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and determination of young detainees, awaiting their cases to be adjudicated by the ...

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

Becca Amos, a psychotherapist, clinical social worker and florist, and floral designer Meredith Wheeler, owner of Secret ...

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New photo exhibition featuring flower arrangements by incarcerated people to raise money for Chesterfield County Jail ...

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

Nolveiro Vera Ordonez was hauled into court on theft charges and pleaded to be sent to jail while ICE agents waited outside ...

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

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