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Nov 5, 2025 - A new oversight report on 2025 jail deaths reveals officers ignored medical emergencies, falsified records and allowed drugs to circulate freely behind bars.

Jan 18, 2023 - Videos have been an important window for outsiders into conditions at the jail.

Dec 7, 2025 - 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...

Nov 21, 2025 - Edwin Ramos, 38, was slated to plead guilty and walk free Friday morning. Instead, he became the 13th person to die in city custody this year.

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Nov 17, 2023 - Look inside Rikers Island Drama Club, a program offering incarcerated youth hope through improv comedy.

Jun 9, 2022 - New York is leading a historic decarceration plan. Our plan is to close Rikers Island and replace it with a smaller network of modern jails.

Nov 24, 2025 - Once a month, when the Brooklyn Children’s Museum is closed to the public, it welcomes a special group of visitors: parents incarcerated at Rikers Island and

Dec 22, 2025 - A Bronx murder suspect died of an apparent allergic reaction suffered while incarcerated on Rikers Island Sunday afternoon — making him the 15th inmate of the

Oct 15, 2025 - An architect’s renderings of “humane” new detention facilities for the island intrigued a Chinatown audience opposed to a planned new jail tower in their...

Nov 26, 2025 - The percentage of incarcerated people those with mental health needs is growing, according to new data.