The disgraced producer has complained volubly about his treatment in jail on Rikers Island. Advocates for detainees say any ...

The New York City Council recently filed a lawsuit to stop Mayor Eric Adams’ executive order allowing U.S. Immigration and ...

The mayor’s office and the City Council remained in a standoff over the closure of Rikers Island on Wednesday, unable to ...

“Now is the time for strong leadership by all present and future office holders in this city to close Rikers as soon as ...

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

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 ...

ICE is allowed to open an office inside New York City’s biggest jail, according to an executive order signed by Deputy Mayor ...

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 ...

The Adams administration unloaded on a Brooklyn lawmaker who championed the closure of Rikers Island then complained about the construction of a new borough-based jail in his own district.

No officers were injured in the ordeal, Catalina said. Boyd was a retired New York City Department of Corrections officer who worked at Rikers Island, according to Suffolk County officials. He was ...