Eric Adams’ top deputy mayor insisted Thursday that ICE won’t start deporting inmates en masse from a resurrected outpost on ...

Federal immigration officials will have a permanent office on New York City's notorious Rikers Island prison under a ...

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

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called Rikers Island a “death camp” Monday even as she admitted the troubled jail complex ...

Rikers Island is more than a place on the New York City map. It’s also an idea about how the city deals with crime and dispenses punishment. And over the past year – not for the first time in recent ...

It was March 12 when 25-year-old Claude White was being treated at a medical clinic in the jail complex. Time Is Running Out for REAL ID as TSA Publishes Final Ruling on Deadline Archeologists ...

A recent report by the Lippman Independent Commission — the task force appointed by the city to plan the upcoming closure of Rikers Island — challenges the city’s acquiescence toward failing ...

A stunning sorority girl whose glamorous mugshot went viral last week has been arrested a second time. University of Georgia student Lily Stewart, 20, was arrested by university police on ...

Mayor Eric Adams says one of the four new community jails that were being built to replace Rikers will now be dedicated to inmates with ... to closing Rikers Island. Adams has tapped his new ...

Join the community that powers NYC’s independent local news. The population on Rikers Island has risen to 7,067 people this week, the highest total since 2019 — and almost twice as high as the target ...