William Payne Jr., who is also being sued for allegedly groping an injured female captain in 2019, was taken off his senior ...

The controversial Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center is the last-running prison ship in the US. The New York facility is set ...

A bridge connect Rikers Island to the rest of New York Rikers Island, a New York jail notorious for the grim stories of cruelty and abuse that emerged from behind its walls, and for its infamous ...

Back in early May, Democratic mayor of New York City, Eric Adams made it clear that if this verdict was borne out, the ...

This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island Jail. They tell their compelling stories direct to ...

He was incarcerated on Rikers Island when he was 16 and returned when he was 19. Guzman discusses the conditions inside the New York City jail complex. He mentions corrupt guards, gang-controlled ...

The death of Curtis Davis by suicide in a Rikers Island jail cell in July 2023 prompted a quick flurry of inquiries and recommendations, including calls for bolstered suicide prevention training ...

The moves come after the Daily News reported Oct. 8 that correction staff has been improperly locking seriously mentally ill ...

The controversial 800-bed prison barge, named the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, arrived in New York more than three decades ago as a way to ease the overcrowding at Rikers Island.

Rikers Islands’ security chief was sacked ... Slashings and stabbings on the prison island have been sporadic, with downward trends following sharp spikes since 2023, according to the figures.

That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...