A Rikers Island inmate behind bars for allegedly slashing a stranger with a boxcutter died in custody this week – marking the ...

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

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

A Rikers Island inmate behind bars for allegedly slashing ... the beleaguered island complex by 2027 and building a smaller jail in each of the five boroughs. In a scathing 65-page contempt ...

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 ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that he is preparing an executive order that would welcome U.S. Immigration and Custom ...

Top DOC overtime hogs at Rikers Island logged so many hours last year, it was the equivalent of six extra hours per day, 365 ...

The executive order seems to get around New York City’s sanctuary laws designed to prevent cooperation with the enforcement ...

Adams says he will issue executive order reestablishing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement presence at complex ...

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

Mayor Adams seeks to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents back onto Rikers Island, he said in a statement ...

A new documentary by Catherine Gund tracks the loss, painting over and recovery of Ringgold’s motivational composition “For ...