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

Activists rally to demand Adams' removal, after a 34th death in custody on his watch. The mayor wants to bring ICE officers ...

A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...

Mayor Adams seeks to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents back onto Rikers Island, he said in a statement ...

President Trump’s executive order also directed federal departments and agencies to ensure that federal funds do not ...

NYC correction officer John Jeff, 28, was fatally shot near the corner of Defoe St. and Ridgedale St. in Springfield Gardens ...

A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...