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Ex-New York corrections officer gets over 2 years in prison for smuggling contraband into Rikers...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA former New York City corrections officer was sentenced Tuesday to more than two years in prison...
Rikers Island, NYC jails inch closer to federal control as violence prompts judge to order city,...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 12 months agoRikers Island and the rest of New York City’s jails inched closer to federal court control Tuesday...
Report: Man was dead in Rikers Island cell, and rigor mortis was setting in before anyone noticed
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA New York inmate died Sunday in a Rikers Island jail cell, and his body had already begun to show...
Rikers Island detainee smashes NYC Correction Dept. bus in escape try outside Brooklyn Supreme Court
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA Rikers Island detainee tried to escape by jumping into the driver seat of a Correction Department bus — which he put into reverse, smashing several cars outside Brooklyn Supreme Court, authorities ...
Rikers Island detainee charged in near-fatal gang stabbing: Bronx prosecutors
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA Rikers Island detainee was charged Tuesday with attempted murder for stabbing an alleged member of...
NYC jail workers busted for smuggling illegal drugs into Rikers Island, taking bribes: feds
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThree former correction officers, a contractor and a program counselor were charged in Manhattan...
Federal judge to reconsider takeover of New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA federal judge is once again weighing a takeover of New York City’s troubled Rikers Island jail...
Rikers Island jail search uncovers large cache of contraband drugs, weapons
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA search in a Rikers Island jail uncovered a large cache of narcotics, including cocaine, K2 and...
Rikers Island detainee dead of suspected drug overdose; 8th fatality in city Correction Department...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA 33-year-old Rikers Island inmate arrested for back-to-back stabbings in Queens last year was found dead in his cell early Tuesday — the eighth city Correction Department detainee to die in ...
Mayor Adams, Rikers Island detainees baptized by Rev. Sharpton on Good Friday
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIt was a very Good Friday for Mayor Adams, who was baptized with inmates on Rikers Island in what he...