Fewer than one in five inmate complaints on Rikers Island over the last four years ever saw any resolution, including ...

NEW YORK-- New York City has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a Rikers Island inmate who suffered severe brain damage after he attempted to hang himself while ...

A woman who was jailed at Rikers Island in New York has detailed the abuse she says she suffered at the hands of prison guards. It’s reportedly been eight years since "Jeny" was released from ...

The city has agreed to pay $28.7 million to the family of a Rikers Island inmate left severely brain damaged during a suicide attempt he made while jail guards watched, court records show.

There is hope. Video obtained by the NBC New York I-Team shows Rikers Island correction officers failing to intervene — for nearly eight minutes — as an inmate hangs himself in their plain view.

Madeline Feliciano alleges three Rikers Island correction officers and a captain waited nearly eight minutes before helping her grandson, Nicholas Feliciano when he attempted suicide in a jail ...

Five former Rikers Island employees and one inmate are now facing federal charges for their involvement in corruption at the jail. According to criminal complaints unsealed in Manhattan federal ...

These days, as an inmate at Rikers Island — New York City’s largest and most notorious jail — Padilla, 45, has drawn even closer to Judaism. Since being imprisoned at the 413-acre East River ...

A woman who was jailed at Rikers Island in New York has detailed the abuse she says she suffered at the hands of prison guards. It’s reportedly been eight years since "Jeny" was released from ...