Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has quietly made it harder for federal agents to monitor Tren de Aragua and other brutal gangs ...

A state judge in New York will continue to block Donald Trump’s administration from opening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office inside Rikers Island jail, one of the largest and most ...

As a federal judge considers taking Rikers Island out of the city’s control and handing it to a court-appointed receiver, the Brooklyn Eagle is looking back at the history of the city’s troubled jail ...

(Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday said she is taking control of New York's troubled Rikers Island jail complex away from city officials and appointing an independent official to oversee it, ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Rikers Island is in a crisis of leadership, and outside intervention is needed to stabilize it, the federal monitor wrote to a judge ahead of an emergency hearing. The city has ...

A New York Supreme Court judge has blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams from going ahead with his plan to allow ICE to reopen an office at the Rikers Island jail complex. Judge Mary Rosado sided ...

Three Department of Correction employees have been suspended following another death at Rikers Island this weekend. Early Saturday morning, officers were conducting a tour and found the 29-year-old ...

Two more detainees died while in the custody of the city over the last week — adding to an alarming trend that also saw a Rikers Island inmate found dead, cops and sources said. Musa Cetin, 29 – a ...