The Latest Breaking News from Rikers Island

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.

A once-prominent neurologist convicted last month of sexually abusing patients killed himself Monday at a New York City jail while awaiting sentencing in that case and a trial on federal charges alleging still more abuse, two people familiar with the matter said

NEW YORK — A Department of Correction officer was fired Monday after a Rikers Island inmate died of a suspected overdose.

Just a week ago, New York City convinced a federal judge not to seize control of the jail.