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

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

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

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 City lawmakers are suing to block Mayor Eric Adams from allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the ...

The hearing comes less than a month after an independent commission found officials won’t meet the 2027 deadline to close the ...

The lawsuit accuses Mayor Eric Adams of facilitating an executive order last week to bring back ICE in exchange for the Trump administration having his federal corruption case dismissed.

In March, the Independent Rikers Commission, of which I am a proud member, released an updated blueprint to close Rikers Island. The publication is timely: just three months into 2025, five people ...

The same week, a non-renewed, non-transformed Rikers Island reported its fifth inmate death of the year: Dashawn Jenkins, 27, who died of a ruptured appendix after days of obvious symptoms that jail ...

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 Center Square) — 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 ...