Inside his cell on Rikers Island, Brian Croskey spends hours every day drawing elaborate artwork to free his mind.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- ICE agents are returning to Rikers Island to coordinate detaining inmates from city criminal cases, under ...

A former corrections officer from Westchester County who admitted to smuggling drugs into Rikers Island in exchange for ...

The executive order, issued late Thursday night, will immediately allow immigration officials to reopen offices on the island ...

In 2019, at the height of progressive influence in New York, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city council voted to close the Rikers Island jail complex and demolish ... hold the population of those ...

A newly-released report from the Independent Rikers Commission—commonly known as the Lippman Commission—lays out an urgent ...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Members of the city council and activists are pushing back on criticism of the plan to close Rikers Island— and build four smaller jails. The project is billions over ...

The lawsuit accuses Adams of entering into a “corrupt bargain” to allow federal agents on Rikers in return for getting his ...

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration released a long-awaited executive order late Tuesday giving federal immigration authorities ...

The Eric Adams administration is permitting ICE to return to Rikers Island to help carry out criminal investigations into ...

New York City lawmakers are suing to block Mayor Eric Adams from allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the ...