“Now is the time for strong leadership by all present and future office holders in this city to close Rikers as soon as ...

Harvey Weinstein's lawyer has requested the disgraced producer be transferred to Bellevue Hospital from Rikers Island during sexual assault retrial.

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 ...

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní The City Council sued Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday in an attempt to block an executive order that permitted the Trump administration to open offices at the Rikers Island ...

released an updated blueprint to close Rikers Island. The publication is timely: just three months into 2025, five people have already died in the city’s jail system. Our original 2017 report ...

NEW YORK — New York City lawmakers are suing to block Mayor Eric Adams from allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by ...

FILE - The Rikers Island jail complex stands in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (Seth Wenig ...

The New York City Council filed a lawsuit Tuesday trying to stop the Adams administration's move allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate on Rikers Island. First Deputy Mayor Randy ...

The woman accused of mowing down a mother and her three children, killing two of them as well as the mom, will remain behind ...

The New York City Council has sued the Adams administration over its move to return federal immigration officials to Rikers Island — bashing it as “poisoned fruit” of the deal struck between ...