A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in city custody in fewer than two months. Dashawn Jenkins, 27, succumbed ...

It’s a meltdown over ICE. Eric Adams’ top deputy mayor insisted Thursday that ICE won’t start deporting inmates en masse from ...

The New York City Department of Correction confirms Dashawn Jenkins, 27, died while in custody Monday night, just one day after his birthday. Officials say staff noticed he was visibly ill while ...

The executive order, issued late Thursday night, will immediately allow immigration officials to reopen offices on the island ...

Federal immigration officials had been barred from the New York City jail complex. The mayor says they can return, but only ...

Another person died on Rikers Island Monday night, marking the fifth death this year of someone in – or just released – from city Department of Correction custody, officials said Tuesday.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at the Rikers Island jail to work on gang ...

FBI agents arrested two New York correction officers Wednesday accused of beating to death a Rikers Island inmate, Newsweek reports. A pretrial detainee, 52-year-old Ronald Spear, was killed in ...

Mayor Eric Adams says one of the four new community jails that were being built to replace Rikers will now be dedicated to inmates with ... to closing Rikers Island. Adams has tapped his new ...