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

The City Council is considering spending $1.1 million on a measure aimed at speeding up the closing of Rikers Island — a bid Mayor Eric Adams’ office slammed as a “redundant, bureaucratic ...

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

City Council members sued Mayor Eric Adams over his alleged “corrupt bargain” to return ICE to Rikers Island – raging that it’d give President Trump free rein to deport innocent New Yorkers.

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

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.