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

Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...

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

The reaction to the mayor’s deal with the Trump administration to re-open ICE immigration operations on Rikers Island has ...

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

A 37-year-old man died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, the first death in the system in 2025, according to ...

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

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 said he would issue executive orders to reestablish a federal immigration presence at the jail complex – with a new ...

After meeting with the White House border czar on Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams says he agreed to allow ICE agents onto Rikers ...

Border czar Tom Homan met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday in a sign of how the Trump administration has its ...