Ramel Powell, 38 – who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year – died ...

A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...

A new documentary by Catherine Gund tracks the loss, painting over and recovery of Ringgold’s motivational composition “For ...

"There is a stark difference between being an actor and being famous. There are a lot of platforms that can grant you fame. To be viral online is to become famous. But being an artist is a ...

In a report published following a review of four female jails, chief prisons inspector Charlie Taylor said this lack of "basic care" is causing such distress that inmates are resorting to harming ...

Inmates on Rikers Island are on a hunger strike in protest of COVID-19 lockdowns and the poor conditions at the NYC prison facility. About 200 male inmates at the Robert N. Davoren Complex launched ...

A Richland County jury has awarded $250,000 to a state prison inmate who claimed a guard repeatedly and unnecessarily shot pepper spray into the inmate’s eyes. Dreamstime TNS A South Carolina ...

But the last four years have been a fantasy world in which people believed they could actually change their birth gender – and the rest of us were tasked with pretending this was so. Or else.The order ...

Harvey Weinstein urged a New York judge on Wednesday to move up his April sexual assault retrial amid continued health issues and "medieval" conditions at New York City's Rikers Island.

“Every day I’m at Rikers Island it’s a mystery to me how I’m still walking,” Weinstein told the court while seated in a wheelchair. “I’m asking and begging you, your honor, I can’t ...

"We notify the local ICE agent when an inmate in Westmoreland County is not a U.S. citizen, and we cooperate with ICE. Like Washington County, very few inmates are not U.S. citizens. This has been ...

Scott Thomas is giving love another shot as he joins the cast of Love Island All Stars, nine years after his first flush of romance with ex-islander Kady McDermott on series 2016. As the ...