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 ...

Alexander, Sir James and William Johnstone, sons of Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet of Westerhall in Dumfries, Scotland and his wife Barbara Murray daughter of Lord Elibank, are buried in the south ...