Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council announced a budget deal that includes bringing Sunday service to some library ...

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 16 of the New York edition with the headline: ICE Indefinitely Halted From Establishing Office At Rikers Island Complex.

Luis Bernier has languished on Rikers Island since March 12 because he can’t get transferred to prison due to the ripples ...

A Manhattan judge on Monday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from going around a municipal law banning solitary confinement in city prisons, including Rikers Island.

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

According to court documents, judges found that reestablishing an ICE office on Rikers Island would risk “damage to reputation, loss of goodwill, and brand tarnishment” to New York City due to ...

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

Rikers Island is seen in this aerial photograph taken in New York on October 31, 2012. REUTERS Fischer didn’t return a request for comment.