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

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

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

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 top count of second-degree murder carries a minimum sentence of 15 years to life in prison. The defendant also is accused of slashing an unidentified woman on the arm. She pleaded not guilty to ...

Lawyers and social workers say they don't understand why some are rejected, even when they follow the published rules.

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 ...

A Rikers Island correctional officer will be fired after being found guilty this week of sexually abusing a woman in his Queens home – a decision that comes years after he was first accused by ...

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

On the afternoon of Dec. 11, Kerri Aherne, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, allegedly entered a bathroom inside the Macy’s ...

I am being tortured by the government,” she insisted. “They put words into my head. They told me that I had to kill or they ...