NEW YORK -- The New York City Department of Correction says a man in custody on Rikers Island has died. They say 47-year-old William Johnstone was found unresponsive in his cell just before 2 p.m.

A detainee at Rikers Island awaiting a court hearing died on Saturday – making him the sixth incarcerated person whose death was linked to the city Department of Correction this year. William ...

William Johnstone, 47, was found unresponsive at about 1:50 p.m. inside his cell at the George R. Vierno Center jail. Medics rushed Johnstone to Mount Sinai Queens where he was then pronounced dead at ...

Lawyers for a robbery suspect who died in custody at Rikers Island called his death — the sixth in the troubled jail complex this year — “abhorrent” and demanded the city Correction Department be held ...

Inbreeding provided one notable recent triumph when Jim Bolger’s Mac Swiney, whose pedigree features Galileo at close proximity on his sire and dam’s side, took the Vertem Futurity Trophy. Also ...