Corey Henry receives a 5-year sentence for stabbing fellow inmates at Rikers Island, pleading guilty to Assault and Attempted Murder.
A bloodthirsty gangbanger slashed two Rikers Island correction officers in a gruesome ceramic scalpel attack — bringing his behind-bars trail of victims to more than 50 people, union leaders said ...
A new report by the Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College warns that Rikers Island has become the largest mental ...
The rising demand for mental health and substance use services at the jails — amid a looming mandate to close the troubled ...
A pilot program requiring officers to work their normal eight hours plus four hours of overtime will start Nov. 30 at the ...
Three correction officers have been suspended following the death of a man incarcerated at New York City's troubled Rikers Island, jail officials said. Officers found Ardit Billa, 29, unresponsive in ...
The death is the 13th jail-related death in 2025, the most since 2022, the first year of the Adams administration, when there ...
A 38-year-old man on Rikers Island became the 13th person this year to die in Department of Correction custody, agency officials announced on Friday.