The City Council is considering spending $1.1 million on a measure aimed at speeding up the closing of Rikers Island — a bid ...

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

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

The hearing comes less than a month after an independent commission found officials won’t meet the 2027 deadline to close the ...

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 ...

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.

Eric Adams’ top deputy mayor insisted Thursday that ICE won’t start deporting inmates en masse from a resurrected outpost on Rikers Island — as progressive City Council members threatened to ...

Harvey Weinstein, 73, appeared in court in New York City on Wednesday as his lawyers argued for him to be moved from Rikers Island prison to a medical facility ...

insisted that ICE will not start deporting inmates en masse. According to the executive order Mastro signed earlier this week, ICE will only be permitted to pursue investigations on Rikers Island ...

The City Council empowered itself Thursday to sue Mayor Adams over his decision to let ICE agents operate on Rikers Island, arguing the move is “the poisonous fruit” of a deal he has been ...

(The Center Square) — The Democratic-led New York City Council is planning to challenge Mayor Eric Adams' move to allow federal immigration agents to open an office at the Rikers Island prison ...