Aramis Furse died after a city correction officer noticed he “appeared unwell” in his cell in the jail’s Otis Bantum ...

Attorneys and families of people incarcerated on Rikers Island blasted the Department of Correction on Wednesday for what ...

Aramis Furse “appeared unwell” at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center around 2 a.m. and was taken to Mount Sinai Queens ...

The agency put more women at risk because it did not take allegations made by formerly incarcerated women seriously, the ...

A 32-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Sunday morning, becoming the 14th person to die in the Department of Correction’s ...

Another death on Rikers Island on Sunday has sparked outrage among prison reform advocates. The New York City Department of ...

An inmate at Rikers Island died early Sunday morning after being found unwell in his cell marking the 14th death at the jail ...

A man died after guards found him looking unwell in his Rikers Island cell, according to a spokesperson for the Department of ...

I am being tortured by the government,” she insisted. “They put words into my head. They told me that I had to kill or they ...

The Brooklyn mom who allegedly insisted her long-missing 11-year-old autistic son did not exist was released from Rikers ...

So far this year 14 people have died at Rikers or shortly after being released from custody there, according to Gothamist’s ...