New Yorkers trying to visit loved ones on Rikers Island are routinely forced to endure hours-long waits, inconsistent rules ...

Aramis Furse “appeared unwell” at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center around 2 a.m. and was taken to Mount Sinai Queens ...

So far this year 14 people have died at Rikers or shortly after being released from custody there, according to Gothamist’s ...

A 32-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Sunday morning, becoming the 14th person to die in the Department of Correction’s ...

The union representing Rikers Island’s correction officers is suing the city for reinstating forced 12-hour shifts, arguing officials illegally used an emergency order to revive the longer tours.

Another death on Rikers Island on Sunday has sparked outrage among prison reform advocates. The New York City Department of ...

Seeing how he did that…in regular society, due to the laws, he knows that, all right, if I attack an officer here, it’s not ...

The agency put more women at risk because it did not take allegations made by formerly incarcerated women seriously, the ...

Aramis Furse died after a city correction officer noticed he “appeared unwell” in his cell in the jail’s Otis Bantum ...

The defense team argued that Jacqueline Pritchett's detention is a violation of the Fifth Amendment.

William Furse can recall the exact moment when he received the devastating news that his 32-year-old son, Aramis, had died while in custody on Rikers Island. “My daughter ...