Seeing how he did that…in regular society, due to the laws, he knows that, all right, if I attack an officer here, it’s not ...

A Rikers Island correctional officer will be fired after being found guilty this week of sexually abusing a woman in his ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote that ...

Lawyers and social workers say they don't understand why some are rejected, even when they follow the published rules.

Jacob Pritchett, 11, has been missing for months. A judge has said his mother must remain at Rikers Island until she reveals ...

The City Council this week unanimously passed a bill that would require the Department of Correction to be more transparent ...

Morales is the third inmate found dead this year in the prison, also known as FCI Fort Dix, a low-security institution ...

ISP says it is investigating the death of a 36-year old inmate on Nov. 26 and the death of a 38-year-old inmate on Dec. 5.

A 25-year-old inmate has died at a federal prison in South Jersey. Jarrette Morales, 25, was found unresponsive at approximately 2:15 a.m. on Nov. 29 at Federal Correctional Institute Fort Dix, ...

This searchable database created by the Southern California News Group contains details about every jail death in the region ...