“These barriers to care have led to extreme conditions, including uncontrollable screaming and individuals smearing their ...

Rikers Island detainee Charizma Jones, who died in July of a horrific skin condition, had a history of mental illness but was ...

The death of Curtis Davis by suicide in a Rikers Island jail cell in July 2023 prompted a quick flurry of inquiries and recommendations, including calls for bolstered suicide prevention training ...

The moves come after the Daily News reported Oct. 8 that correction staff has been improperly locking seriously mentally ill ...

Rikers Islands’ security chief was sacked a little more than a week after the correction officers’ called for his ouster over ...

And sometimes flood the cells,” Rzewinski said ... More than half of detainees on Rikers Island get some sort of mental health services, according to the jail’s health care provider.

Around a year after hundreds of lawsuits were filed against the Department of Correction by New Yorkers who said they were ...

The family of Charizma Jones, a 23-year-old woman who died after allegedly being denied medical care on Rikers Island, plans to sue the city for $50 million.

An alleged sex creep locked up on Rikers ... their cells for extended periods without access to medication and treatment. “The reports of people with severe mental illness at Rikers Island ...

Councilmember Sandy Nurse said she was assaulted by a person in custody during a visit to Rikers Island ... where jail staff reportedly lock mentally-ill inmates in their cells for days or weeks ...

Donald Trump has probably avoided seeing inside of a jail cell thanks to his successful bid for re-election. The ...

“These barriers to care have led to extreme conditions, including uncontrollable screaming and individuals smearing their cells with ... Vierno Center, a jail on Rikers Island.