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So far this year 14 people have died at Rikers or shortly after being released from custody there, according to Gothamist’s tracking of Department of Correction reports.

A City Council bill could provide a new path forward.

A state Supreme Court justice said the action was invalidated due to an "impermissible appearance of a conflict of interest."

Defendants who were found unfit to stand trial waited on Rikers an average of 79 days as of last fall, according to the Independent Rikers Commission report.

Rikers had 5 deaths through all of 2024. This year there have been at least 4.

Having more people in the jails complicates the plan to close them, according to a new report.

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court on Friday, paints a picture of panic when the blaze broke out at the jail's North Infirmary Command unit in April 2023.

Nearly 3,500 body-worn cameras were removed from correction officers’ uniforms in early May.

In lawsuits filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act, more than 30 women said they were groped, forced to perform oral sex and raped by medical staff at Rikers and other city correctional facilities.

The move is in response to a Gothamist investigation into hundreds of lawsuits filed by women who said they were sexually assaulted by jail staff.