Lawsuits are challenging President Trump’s abrupt decision to send men awaiting deportation to the American military base in ...

These are the first independent images to emerge from the migrant operation that the Trump administration has begun at the ...

Having long fought against the appointment of an independent monitor to reform Rikers ... at the island jail complex, including a lack of heat and hot water in some units, inconsistent medical care, ...

Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a coalition of senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

All New York City agencies, including public schools and the shelter system, can allow federal authorities searching for ...

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

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 ...

“We talked about getting a presence in Rikers Island, we talked about how we can collaborate on public safety threats,” Homan said Sunday. The DOJ recently ordered federal prosecutors to drop ...

Corrections officers at prisons in Buffalo and Auburn have gone on strike, despite the union representing the officers not ...

A former assistant chief at New York’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office heralded Mayor Eric Adams’ vow to reopen Rikers Island to the feds, saying it is a “critical” step ...

“We are now working on implementing an executive order that will reestablish the ability for ICE agents to operate on Rikers Island — as was the case for 20 years,” he continued. The ICE ...