released an updated blueprint to close Rikers Island. The publication is timely: just three months into 2025, five people have already died in the city’s jail system. Our original 2017 report ...

He was transported from Rikers Island on Tuesday, April 15, where he has been imprisoned since April 2024, as jury selection began. On Wednesday, legal representatives for the disgraced producer ...

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.

The City Council sued Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday in an effort to block his office’s executive order allowing federal immigration authorities to re-establish a presence at the Rikers Island jail ...

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 ...

New York City is allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to return to its Rikers Island prison following recent demands placed on Mayor Eric Adams by the Trump administration.

Federal immigration enforcers are welcome back to the New York City jail complex on Rikers Island — after a decade in exile under the city’s sanctuary-city laws — according to a mayoral ...