Long Island police officers were legally justified in using deadly force against an ex-Rikers Island jail guard during a ...

Twelve people died in city jails this year — three over a two-week period — already exceeding the number who died last year. Despite a decade under court monitoring during which five commissioners ...

A Crips member who let his younger brother languish on Rikers Island for a mistaken-identity murder he committed will spend ...

One tolling agency has capped late fees. While the MTA charges $50 for every unpaid toll, the Thruway Authority charges just ...

Duran spent three years at Rikers and another nine in different maximum-security prisons upstate for manslaughter. He described spending 23 hours a day in solitary confinement as “torture.” He said he ...

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