The Latest Breaking News from Rikers

A federal prosecutor says his office will seek to have control of New York City’s trouble-plagued Rikers Island jail complex taken away from Mayor Eric Adam’s administration in favor of a court-appointed outside authority

No longer will the troubled jail system publicly report when somebody dies in custody.

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 — New York City might blow the 2027 deadline for closing Rikers Island by two years, according to a public notice on a city contract posted Monday.

NEW YORK — A new lawsuit claims city doctors botched a plan to ease a Rikers Island detainee with psychiatric issues off prescription drugs, causing a catastrophic seizure from withdrawal that led him to die.

NEW YORK — An inmate awaiting sentencing for repeatedly peddling drugs outside a Midtown fast food joint died early Saturday on Rikers Island, the first death of 2023 at the troubled jail complex, the Daily News has learned.

Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump and the star prosecution witness in the Trump Organization's criminal trial, was sentenced on Tuesday to five months behind bars for helping engineer a wide-ranging tax fraud at the former president's real estate company.

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

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.