BRONX, N.Y. — A Rikers Island inmate has been indicted on multiple charges, including arson and assault, after allegedly starting a fire in his cell and slashing two New York City Department of ...

Woods. "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. We will not tolerate any ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island ... help correctional officers keep temperatures down. With so many inmates serving time for stealing ...

According to the Dallas Township Police Department, on November 14, officers extradited Ronny Almanzar Jimenez from Rikers Island, New York, to face charges for a 2023 theft in […] WBRE Wilkes-Barre ...

he said “she has played a central role in the progress we have made" in bringing down violence on Rikers Island. Now, his administration is proposing a new role for Maginley-Liddie: compliance ...

As a federal judge considers taking Rikers Island out ... that a group of correctional officers unjustly beat him and his fellow detainees in March 2010. A year later, the case grew to a class action ...

Former Queens Council Member Ruben Wills said he suffered “extreme anxiety attacks” after watching shocking bodycam video of multiple New York state correction officers mercilessly beating a ...

“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 Bronx jury Tuesday acquitted a correction captain while convicting an officer for their roles in a 2019 incident during which a Rikers Island detainee tried to hang himself, and at least four ...

Inmates on Rikers Island are on a hunger strike in protest of COVID-19 lockdowns and the poor conditions at the NYC prison facility. About 200 male inmates at the Robert N. Davoren Complex launched ...