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

A former corrections officer from Westchester County who admitted to smuggling drugs into Rikers Island in exchange for ...

the moral imperative to close Rikers Island remains as urgent as ever,” said Nurse, who is also the co-chair of the council’s Progressive Caucus, noting at least five inmates have died at the ...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — 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 over ...

Detainees on Rikers Island have continued to struggle to get ... They provide detainees and inmates with basic resources for legal research, notary services, photocopying services, typing services ...

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 ...

are again allowed to be granted office space on Rikers, which currently locks up nearly 7,000 inmates, mostly pre-trial detainees. The mayoral order says that the federal personnel on the island ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ‘ administration is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at Rikers Island to work on gang and drug-related criminal investigations ...