NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rikers Island is on lockdown after correction officers reported a missing inmate. Sources tell Eyewitness News that the inmate jumped a fence at the Anna M. Kross Center jail, ...
An inmate at Rikers Island died in his prison cell Saturday morning – marking the ninth reported prisoner death at the troubled New York City jail this year, officials said. Ardit Billa, 29, who was ...
An inmate died of a medical emergency in the bathroom of a Rikers Island facility Tuesday morning – marking the eighth reported death of an inmate at the city’s jails this year, officials said. A ...
A new watchdog report on Rikers Island details new medical and safety horrors besetting detainees at the sprawling jail complex — a headache that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani can’t avoid.