The Latest Breaking News from Rikers Island

NEW YORK — Mentally ill detainees on Rikers Island and in other city jails have become more likely to deliberately hurt themselves in recent years, data obtained by the New York Daily News shows.

NEW YORK — The Trump Organization’s convicted finance chief Allen Weisselberg was sprung from Rikers Island on Wednesday.

NEW YORK — After he stopped a mentally ill Rikers Island inmate’s savage attack on a fellow detainee in November 2019, Correction Officer Charlie Bracey went home satisfied he’d saved a life.

NEW YORK — Nestor Hernandez, arrested on an assault charge, says he sat in a fetid Rikers Island intake cell for four days before his father posted his bail.

Somehow deaths have climbed even though the prison population has dropped.

NEW YORK — A Manhattan man sent to Rikers Island for shoplifting perfume has died of a suspected overdose, the 19th death in New York City jails this year, sources said Monday.

The humanitarian crisis worsens as politicians and advocates debate closing or fixing the embattled facility.

A 26-year-old man held at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex died Monday — the 18th such death in 2022 — exactly three years to the day from the start of his pretrial detention in the city jails.

Friday, Federal Monitor Steve Martin will submit his latest report on the situation at the ignominious Rikers Island complex. It will come just over four months after Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the city to put into practice an action plan to address the consistent threat to the…

Is a federal takeover of the troubled jail pending?

Anna Gristina, 54, spent four months on remand in the notorious Rikers Island prison in 2012 after she was caught in an undercover FBI sting.