A 32-year-old Rikers Island inmate died behind bars early Sunday — the 14th in-custody death at the Big Apple jail complex this year, Correction Department officials said. Aramis Furse “appeared ...

An inmate at Rikers Island died early Sunday morning after being found unwell in his cell marking the 14th death at the jail complex this year, New York City Department of Correction officials said.

After a mentally ill Bradley Ballard made a lewd gesture to a female guard at the Rikers Island jail, he was locked in his cell alone for seven increasingly agitated days in which he was denied some ...

A federal judge recently threatened to send in a receiver to take over the notorious prison, which could soon home the man ...

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city’s criminal justice system. The city is ...