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New York City Council members and advocates protested the Adams administration's order restoring ICE's ability to operate on ...
Lawmakers signed a resolution Thursday allowing Speaker Adrienne Adams to sue Mayor Eric Adams and the Trump administration.
Federal immigration officials will have a permanent office on New York City's notorious Rikers Island prison under a directive from the Adams administration, which says the ...
New York City’s Rikers Island jail facility will house federal officials to assist in ongoing criminal investigations ...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at the Rikers Island jail to work on gang ...
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, along with agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland ...
New York City First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro signed an executive order Tuesday allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
A painting by artist Faith Ringgold, 'For the Women’s House' was displayed at New York’s Rikers Island women’s jail. Until it disappeared.
In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can’t close by 2027, but the reality-denying City Council refuses to admit it. The first of the ...
While the penal island has a maximum capacity of at least 10,000 in multiple buildings, the population increase jeopardizes the $16 billion plan to close Rikers jails by 2027 as required by a de ...
Following increased calls for action, de Blasio and then-city Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte announced a 14-point plan to create a safe environment for incarcerated people at Rikers Island. De ...