STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A South Shore man with a history of carrying out knifepoint robberies at local businesses is headed ...

The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say ...

Shutterstock Hart Island, New York Here’s a graveyard where over a million forgotten souls rest in peace. This eerie 131-acre ...

Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...

Ramel Powell, 38 – who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year – died ...

A 37-year-old man died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, in the first death in the system in 2025, according ...

A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...

The city Department of Correction said it was still investigating the death and had no further details on how the person died ...

A former assistant chief at New York’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office heralded Mayor Eric Adams’ vow to ...

Council Member Robert Holden has praised Mayor Eric Adams for reopening the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city's Rikers Island jail following a meeting Thursday with President Donald Trump's border czar.

agents to restart operations on Rikers Island, which holds New York City’s largest jail. “Today, I met with ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan and local federal law enforcement officials to discuss ...