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NY City Council sues Mayor Adams over plan to have ICE officers on Rikers Island

New York City lawmakers are suing to block Mayor Eric Adams from allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the City Council, accuses Adams of agreeing to the plan to “pay off” the Trump administration in exchange for dropping criminal charges against him.

Newsday · 11h

New York City Council sues to stop ICE from coming into Rikers Island prison

The lawsuit accuses Mayor Eric Adams of facilitating an executive order last week to bring back ICE in exchange for the Trump administration having his federal corruption case dismissed.

ABC7 New York on MSN · 6d

Adams administration establishes office for ICE agents inside Rikers Island

NEW YORK (WABC) -- ICE agents are returning to Rikers Island to coordinate detaining inmates from city criminal cases, under a long promised executive order issued by the mayor's office. An executive order by the Adams administration will allow federal agents into the jail complex to assist in criminal investigations.

amNewYork on MSN8h

The art of confinement: Rikers Island detainees’ work goes on display in Brooklyn

Inside his cell on Rikers Island, Brian Croskey spends hours every day drawing elaborate artwork to free his mind. The 55-year-old from Washington Heights is halfway through an eight-month sentence ...

Mayor's office executive order will allow federal agents to return to Rikers Island jail

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, along with agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland ...

Queens Daily Eagle10h

Rikers’ law libraries lack supplies and remain disorganized, report finds

Detainees on Rikers Island have continued to struggle to get access to the jail complex’s law libraries, a new report from the Department of Correction’s oversight body found.

City Journal6d

The Plan to Close Rikers Is Failing—But No One Will Admit It

The same week, a non-renewed, non-transformed Rikers Island reported its fifth inmate death of the year: Dashawn Jenkins, 27, who died of a ruptured appendix after days of obvious symptoms that ...

6don MSN

NYC lets immigration officials open an office at Rikers jail, a priority for Trump

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ‘ administration is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at ...

10don MSN

Why an Australian journalist is teaching meditation in America's toughest jails

After a devastating family tragedy in her early 30s, journalist Joh Jarvis found solace in mediation. Now, she teaches the ...

6don MSN

Adams admin reopens NYC’s Rikers Island jail to ICE — fulfilling key demand by Trump border czar

ICE will be allowed to return to Rikers Island under a new executive order — that Mayor Eric Adams opted not to sign himself.

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