NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former guard at New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail complex brutally and repeatedly kicked an inmate in the head in 2012 while the man lay helplessly, leading directly ...

A former Rikers Island correction officer pleaded not guilty Thursday to killing an inmate and trying to cover it up as a judge set May 31 as the trial date for the disturbing case. Brian Coll, 45, ...

A guard at New York City's troubled jail complex Rikers Island "savagely" kicked an ailing inmate to death four years ago before persuading fellow guards to lie about what happened, a prosecutor told ...

NEW YORK – A former guard at New York's Rikers Island jail was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for violating the civil rights of a restrained ailing inmate when he kicked him to death ...

A Rikers Island guard has been convicted of civil rights violations, conspiring to falsify records and other crimes in the 2012 beating death of a sick inmate who prosecutors say he kicked in the head ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – A former Rikers Island guard convicted of kicking an inmate to death has been sentenced to spend 30 years behind bars. Brian Coll, of Smithtown, was sentenced Wednesday by ...

An ex-Rikers Island guard accused of killing a sick inmate memorialized the dirty deed by framing an article about the man’s gruesome death — and then hanging it in his bedroom as a “trophy,” a ...