Rikers Island

Black Trans Icon Layleen Polanco Found Dead In Her Jail Cell At Rikers Island

The LGBTQ community and her family are demanding answers.
06/10/2019

Police Union Slammed For Saying Colin Kaepernick's Rikers Island Visit Will Only Encourage Inmates To Attack Correction Officers

What a stretch.
12/13/2017

Teen Held on Gun Charges With Quarter-Million-Dollar Bail Even Though Victim and Witnesses Say He's Innocent

Pedro Hernandez's arresting officer has a sketchy past.
07/24/2017

Feds Sue NYC Over Rikers Island Jail Violence

Prosecutors are aiming to speed up the pace of reforms.
12/18/2014

Family Receives $2.25M Settlement in Hot Cell Death

Jerome Murdough died in February in Rikers Island.
11/03/2014

New Study Reveals 'Culture of Violence' in New York's Largest Jail

Teen inmates suffer "unnecessary and excessive force.”
08/06/2014
Former NFL Star Sam Hurd Talks Drugs in the NFL

Athletes Behaving Badly

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Lil Wayne to Appear On The Cover of Rolling Stone Magazine

12/21/2010