Until a court ruling, the city is prohibited from furthering any agreement to let Immigration and Customs Enforcement back ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has lost another round in his efforts to allow federal agents to open an office on Rikers ...

The New York City Council was accused of fear-mongering in their fight to stop ICE on Rikers Island, an attorney for the ...

The ruling comes after the City Council sued the Adams administration to block federal immigration authorities from accessing the island.

NEW YORK — A New York judge has ordered city officials to temporarily halt a plan allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex ahead of a hearing later ...

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Chelsia Rose Marcius For years, a handful of federal immigration agents worked out of a trailer office at the jail complex on Rikers Island in New York City.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been cleared to reestablish a presence on Rikers Island, per an executive order handed down by the Adams administration.

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called Rikers Island a “death camp” Monday even as she admitted the troubled jail complex can’t shutter by 2027 — but still refused to say whether she ...

By Hurubie Meko and Jan Ransom In the first three months of the year, five people have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York or shortly after being released from city custody ...