Dancing was a part of the inmates’ exercise, courtesy of a viral performance ... At the sensitive age of 16, Kalief was charged with a crime he did not even commit and was sent to Rikers Island Prison ...

A Rikers Island inmate has been indicted on multiple charges, including arson and assault, after allegedly starting a fire in ...

Former Rikers Island officer Ghislaine Barrientos pleads guilty to bribery and smuggling narcotics into the jail.

Public officials have it within their power to take necessary steps toward permanently closing the atrocious jails on Rikers.

“Rikers Island is less safe, for inmates and officers alike, when corrections officers and others in positions of public trust accept bribes to smuggle contraband,” Acting U.S. Attorney Edward ...

A New York City Board of Corrections report found that Rikers Island detention officers repeatedly blocked medical staff from seeing a sick inmate who later died of multiple organ failure.

The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation (OSI) announced on Thursday that no criminal charges will be ...

La La Anthony was honored with "La La Anthony Lane" in NYC for her community service, particularly her work with Rikers Island inmates through her non-profit, ThreeSixty. Celebrities like Ciara ...

Nicholas Feliciano, who was 18 at the time, survived the 2019 incident but suffered severe brain damage, leaving him with permanent impairments. California wildfires rage for second day ...