Daniel Penny, the Long Island native and Marine vet ... was not initially arrested or charged in the death of Neely, who was Black. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg won an indictment ...

Mr. Penny, a Long Island native and former architecture ... troubles and their resistance to accepting help. Mr. Neely had also been arrested more than three dozen times — mostly for minor ...

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, ...

By Priya Krishna Photographs by Brittainy Newman Priya Krishna and Brittainy Newman twice visited Rikers Island, where they were granted extensive access to a kitchen, its cooks and the detainees ...

Rikers Island has made a name for itself as a campus of prisons filled with stories of abuse, murder, inedible food and rats, according to a USA Today report from 2017. Rikers primarily houses people ...

"Every day I'm at Rikers Island it's a mystery to me how I'm still walking," Weinstein told the court while seated in a wheelchair. "I'm asking and begging you, your honor, I can't hold on anymore.

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... facilities in the US. REUTERS Arrested at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2016 ...

With calls to close Rikers mounting in recent years ... she was nine months pregnant when she was arrested, and during more than 40 hours of labor, she was handcuffed to a gurney, only to have ...

“Every day I’m at Rikers Island it’s a mystery to me how I’m still walking,” Weinstein told the court while seated in a wheelchair. “I’m asking and begging you, your honor, I can’t ...