Families and criminal justice advocates have long urged jail officials to notify them about deaths and other emergencies in custody more fully.

The New York Times has obtained video of the 2022 death of Michael Nieves, a mentally ill detainee who mortally wounded himself on Rikers Island.

In May 2023, after a spike in deaths on Rikers Island, city jail officials suddenly stopped notifying the media shortly after ...

Veo Kelly has been held without bail on Rikers Island awaiting trial for attacking Samyia and Sanyia Spain, 19.

Rikers Island has a decades-long reputation of spiraling dysfunction, brutality, and even death against those awaiting trial. The East River prison allowed Eyewitness News onto their grounds to ...

The Queens public defender arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-laced papers to a Rikers Island inmate has been ...

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

The Bronx district attorney’s office will not bring charges against a Queens lawyer who was publicly accused by correctional ...

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.