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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 ...
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called Rikers Island a “death camp” Monday even as she admitted the troubled jail complex ...
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 ...
According to any measure Hispaniola, the Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is two different planets in one. People in the Dominican Republic are 11 times richer than ...
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 ...
Enterprise browser startup Island just raised a sizable funding round — one that bumps up its valuation significantly, and less than one year after its last fundraise. Dallas-based Island raised ...
On Wednesday, Dan was joined Judge Jonathan Lippman, Chair of the Independent Rikers Commission, to discuss plans to close Rikers Island.
FBI agents arrested two New York correction officers Wednesday accused of beating to death a Rikers Island inmate, Newsweek reports. A pretrial detainee, 52-year-old Ronald Spear, was killed in ...
The only sane answer is to just build new jails on Rikers Island, and transfer inmates as practical, writes The Post Editorial Board. Leonardo Munoz The de Blasio-era law requiring City Hall to ...
Having long fought against the appointment of an independent monitor to reform Rikers Island, the Adams administration has presented a plan for a different entity to take charge of the troubled jails ...