NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rikers Island is on lockdown after correction officers reported a missing inmate. Sources tell Eyewitness News that the inmate jumped a fence at the Anna M. Kross Center jail, ...
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, New York -- A Rikers Island inmate was quickly caught after trying to escape by jumping into the East River during recreation time Thursday. Authorities said 37-year-old Arthur Brown, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...