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

Ramel Powell, 38 – who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year – died ...

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

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

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city’s Rikers Island jail ...

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

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

Council Member Robert Holden has praised Mayor Eric Adams for reopening the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office ...

Adams is set to issue an executive order to allow federal immigration authorities into Rikers Island jail complex after ...

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced on Thursday that he would issue an executive order to allow federal immigration authorities into the Rikers Island jail complex ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city's Rikers Island jail following a meeting Thursday with President Donald Trump's border czar.