An inmate died of a medical emergency in the bathroom of a Rikers Island facility Tuesday morning – marking the eighth reported death of an inmate at the city’s jails this year, officials said. A ...

The officer failed to provide lifesaving aid to the 43-year-old man as he had a seizure in a cell, according to an official report.

An inmate died at Rikers Island over the weekend. The 34-year-old man had been in custody for less than 24 hours. It comes just a week after another inmate death at Rikers. An inmate identified as ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Lawyers for the first Rikers Island inmate to die from COVID-19 say he was being held at the notorious New York City jail on a technical parole violation. Michael Tyson, 53, died ...

NEW YORK — A man being held on Rikers Island died early Saturday, the 10th inmate being housed in city jails to die this year. City Department of Correction officials confirmed the death, claiming ...

NEW YORK CITY -- New York City is disciplining 17 correction officers in the death of Layleen Polanco, a transgender woman who died in Rikers Island solitary confinement last year. Mayor Bill de ...

An inmate died of a medical emergency in the bathroom of a Rikers Island facility Tuesday morning – marking the eighth reported death of an inmate at the city’s jails this year, officials said. A ...