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 ...

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.

The Rhode Island Department of Corrections said an inmate died Friday night after collapsing while at the facility’s gym. A ...

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 ...

Three former correction officers, one program counselor, a contractor, and an inmate are facing federal charges, according to court documents. Former Rikers Island correction officer Carlos Rivera ...

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 died just hours after being committed to the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, according to NBC affiliate WJAR.

Three former correction officers, a contractor and a program counselor were charged in Manhattan Federal Court for smuggling a drug store’s worth of illegal narcotics into two different Rikers ...

New York City has agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a suspect being held on Rikers Island that exposed serious breakdowns by both correction and medical staff ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was baptized at notorious Rikers Island jail on Good Friday ... which has seen reports of violent crime and inmate deaths, where Adams met with detainees over ...