Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center barge in Hunts Point—which previously housed overflow population from Rikers Island jails—will be removed, and the area ...

The Rikers Island jail complex is shown in the Bronx borough of New York, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. AP Jail cells are seen in the Enhanced Supervision Housing Unit at the Rikers Island Correctional ...

John Edward Villar-Villa of the Bronx was taken into custody on Tuesday, June 3, at Rikers Island Correctional Center, where he was already being held on an unrelated matter, the Yorktown Police ...

However, the agency was banned from a permanent presence on the island in 2014 under New York City’s "sanctuary" laws, which limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. Two weeks ago, a ...

(The Center Square) – A state judge in New York has extended a temporary restraining order barring federal immigration officials from setting up a permanent office at the Rikers Island jail. The ...

Judge Mary Rosado Tuesday extended a temporary restraining order disallowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement back onto Rikers Island.

A New York judge has temporarily extended a restraining order blocking federal immigration officials from setting up shop on Rikers Island.