The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, along with agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland ...

A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly ... Jenkins’ death marks the fifth of an inmate at Rikers in fewer than two months. A total of five inmates died at the jail in all of 2024.

He had been at Rikers since July. The Legal Aid Society is calling his death "a stark reminder of the ongoing human rights crisis unfolding at Rikers Island ... the troubled jail complex in ...

The executive order, issued late Thursday night, will immediately allow immigration officials to reopen offices on the island ...

State prison officials said they will re-evaluate accepting new prisoners at the end of the month, while advocates said incarcerated people are desperate to get off Rikers Island. The complex is ...

The commission, made up of a range of jail experts and prominent New ... and the large number of mentally ill detainees. Inmates at Rikers Island’s George Motchan Detention Center in 2017.

more New Yorkers will suffer from case delays and be forced to languish on Rikers Island, further exacerbating the already high jail population,” Mary Lynne Werlwas, director of the Prisoners’ Rights ...

NEW YORK — A commission that supports closing the jail on Rikers Island acknowledged Wednesday ... also called for transferring mentally ill inmates to psychiatric facilities and expanding ...