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

MANHATTAN (CN) — As New York City works on closing the Rikers Island prison complex, a federal jury handed a mixed verdict Thursday to a corrections officer caught beating an inmate in surveillance ...

FILE - This June 20, 2014 file photo shows the Rikers Island jail complex in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background. New York City lawmakers are considering a plan to close the ...

A medical intern is attacked by a mentally ill inmate at Rikers Island in 2014. The mental health clinician who was stabbed in the Vierno Center in July 2023 needed stitches for his wounds.

Human rights groups have described Ecuador's penitentiary crisis as a “prison genocide” At least one inmate was killed and two others were injured Monday in yet a new prison riot in Ecuador ...

Both the longest and the largest island in the contiguous United States, Long Island extends eastward from New York Harbor to Montauk Point. Long Island has played a prominent role in scientific ...

German authorities say they have arrested three people on suspicion of spying for China. The main suspect, named as Thomas... In yet another high-scoring game this ...

Long before Kalief Browder’s tragic story — jailed at 16, three years spent at Rikers Island for want of $3,000 bail, often in solitary confinement, for the false allegation of stealing a ...

Grace Hase covers Santa Clara County, Santa Clara and Cupertino for The Mercury News. She is a lifelong Bay Area resident and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with degrees in ...

The area around Rikers Island, Bronx, NY is highly car-dependent. Services and amenities are not close by, meaning you’ll definitely need a car to run your errands. Regarding transit, there are only a ...