Corey Henry receives a 5-year sentence for stabbing fellow inmates at Rikers Island, pleading guilty to Assault and Attempted Murder.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rikers Island is on lockdown after correction officers reported a missing inmate. Sources tell Eyewitness News that the inmate jumped a fence at the Anna M. Kross Center jail, ...

Surveillance videos show past cases of inmate abuse and neglect. — -- On the ABC News app? Click HERE to watch this interactive video. Rikers Island: the very name has long been synonymous with ...

An inmate died of a medical emergency in the bathroom of a Rikers Island facility Tuesday morning – marking the eighth reported death of an inmate at the city’s jails this year, officials said. A ...

The rising demand for mental health and substance use services at the jails — amid a looming mandate to close the troubled ...

The incident occurred in April 2023 when members of the Department of Correction Emergency Services Unit were conducting a contraband search.

NEW YORK CITY -- Lawyers for the first Rikers Island inmate to die from COVID-19 say he was being held at the notorious New York City jail on a technical parole violation. Michael Tyson, 53, died ...

Greg Ferguson sees evolution at Rikers. — -- At 50, Greg Ferguson is one of the old-timers at Rikers Island, residing at the New York City jail complex since 2011. Felony cases in the Bronx can ...