Bronx man becomes seventh to die in DOC custody this year
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A 41-year-old man who had been held on Rikers Island for over two years was pronounced dead on Tuesday morning.
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Man who died in Bellevue jail unit was repeatedly ignored by staff, new lawsuit says
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A man who died while in custody was repeatedly ignored by both correctional officers and hospital staff when he tried to voice concerns about his health, a new lawsuit filed on Monday claims.
Read MoreMan dies in Bellevue jail unit, becoming sixth DOC death of 2026
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A man being held in a new Bellevue Hospital jail unit for detainees with serious medical needs died on Wednesday, becoming the sixth person to die in Department of Correction custody this year.
Read MoreRikers detainees allege city denied them outdoor recreation for weeks
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Two new lawsuits allege that the city’s Department of Correction illegally kept Rikers Island detainees indoors without access to outdoor recreation time for weeks on end, wreaking havoc on detainees’ mental and physical health.
Read MoreRikers commission tries to build support for jails’ closure despite ‘impossible’ deadline
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The Independent Rikers Commission is hoping to remind New Yorkers why the city first began to endeavor closing its dangerous jail complex, even if it has no shot at hitting the legally-mandated 2027 deadline to do so.
Read MoreRemediation manager finds ‘chaotic’ conditions as Rikers reform effort begins
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Rikers Island’s power remediation manager issued his much-anticipated first report this week, detailing his plans to begin to curb the violence that has plagued the city’s jails for decades.
Read MoreCity revives long-stalled element of Rikers closure plan
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After former Mayor Eric Adams stalled on a key element of the plan to close Rikers Island, the Mamdani administration on Monday reversed course, transferring three jail facilities out of Department of Correction control and reviving a jail decommissioning process required by city law.
Read MoreCourts pick up pace, but hurdles to shrinking Rikers population remain, judge says
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Cases are moving faster through New York’s courts, reducing the amount of time defendants have to wait on Rikers Island – but a number of entrenched obstacles could make even quicker case processing difficult to achieve, the state’s top administrative judge warned last week.
Read MoreNew Rikers leadership earns praise, but violence persists, report says
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While the federal monitor tasked with tracking conditions on Rikers Island appears optimistic about the leadership of the two new officials in charge of the city’s jails, violence in the troubled complex remains high, the monitor said in a new report.
Read MoreCorrection officers’ union challenges key hire by Rikers remediation manager
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The powerful union representing correctional officers on Rikers Island this week asked a federal judge to "reassess" the recent hiring of an ex-Department of Correction investigator tapped by the remediation manager to reprise her role in the city’s jail complex.
Read MoreQueens atty who was wrongfully arrested on Rikers sues city, officers’ union
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A former Queens Defenders attorney who was wrongfully accused of smuggling drugs into Rikers Island is suing the city and the correctional officers’ union who levied the accusations against him, alleging he was unlawfully detained and defamed so the union could score political points.
Read MoreRikers ‘deadlocking’ debate continues at oversight hearing
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The dispute over the existence of “deadlocking,” or the practice of locking up detainees on Rikers Island for weeks or months at a time in violation of Department of Correction policy, cutting them off from health care, services and other people in custody, continued during a jail oversight meeting on Tuesday.
Read MoreDOC boss defends proposed cut to difficult-to-fill officer jobs on Rikers
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The commissioner of the Department of Correction on Tuesday defended a nearly 600-officer cut proposed by the mayor, despite asking the City Council for more funds to hire and recruit officers only a couple of months ago.
Read MoreTwo detainees die within a day on Rikers
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Two detainees died on Rikers Island in quick succession of each other on Monday and Tuesday as the jail’s top officials were across the Atlantic, touring jails in Europe.
Read MoreCourt-appointed manager to take over troubled Rikers misconduct investigations
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Investigations into alleged abuses by Rikers Island officers will no longer be handled by the Department of Correction, according to a new organizational structure that puts a court-appointed remediation manager in charge of probing misconduct inside the jails.
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