Lawmakers signed a resolution Thursday allowing Speaker Adrienne Adams to sue Mayor Eric Adams and the Trump administration.

It’s a meltdown over ICE. Eric Adams’ top deputy mayor insisted Thursday that ICE won’t start deporting inmates en masse from a resurrected outpost on Rikers Island — as ...

Federal immigration officials will have a permanent office on New York City’s notorious Rikers Island prison under a ...

Federal immigration officials had been barred from the New York City jail complex. The mayor says they can return, but only ...

As victims await closure and defendants languish behind bars, New York City’s courts struggle to overcome a culture of delay ...

A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in ...

FBI agents arrested two New York correction officers Wednesday accused of beating to death a Rikers Island inmate, Newsweek reports. A pretrial detainee, 52-year-old Ronald Spear, was killed in ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island resident alleges in a disturbing new lawsuit that he was raped and sexually assaulted by his female counselor at a juvenile facility in Hudson Valley while ...

Having long fought against the appointment of an independent monitor to reform Rikers Island, the Adams administration has presented a plan for a different entity to take charge of the troubled jails ...

Mayor Eric Adams says one of the four new community jails that were being built to replace Rikers will now be dedicated to inmates with ... to closing Rikers Island. Adams has tapped his new ...

Adrienne Adams convened the commission in the somewhat more peaceful days of 2023, before she was challenging Eric Adams’ ...