A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in ...

The young detainee who appears to have died of a ruptured appendix and infection began showing serious medical issues in the city jails as long as three days before he collapsed on Rikers Island ...

On Wednesday, Dan was joined Judge Jonathan Lippman, Chair of the Independent Rikers Commission, to discuss plans to close Rikers Island.

Replete with name-drops, one of the biggest in the novel was Harvey Weinstein, whom Carter revealed caught the ire of his publication long before falling out of public favor. The famed film ...

Rikers Island is more than a place on the New York City map. It’s also an idea about how the city deals with crime and dispenses punishment. And over the past year – not for the first time in recent ...

Rikers Island will not shutter by the legally mandated deadline in 2027, according to a report released last week by the Independent Rikers Commission. Reiterating the city’s conclusion that the ...

A recent report by the Lippman Independent Commission — the task force appointed by the city to plan the upcoming closure of Rikers Island — challenges the city’s acquiescence toward failing ...

An investment trust targeted by US carpetbagger Boaz Weinstein has moved to see off the Wall Street raider by unveiling a swathe of plans to placate investors. The £204 million Schroder UK Mid ...

According to any measure Hispaniola, the Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is two different planets in one. People in the Dominican Republic are 11 times richer than ...

“You and your families will be eliminated” By Norman Palihawadane and Hemantha Randunu A full-scale investigation has been launched to... Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya highlighted the ...