A Rikers Island inmate behind bars for allegedly slashing a stranger with a boxcutter died in custody this week – marking the city’s first detainee death in 2025, officials and sources said.

“It sounds like the DOJ dropped the case against Adams, [and in] exchange, he let you into Rikers,” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Homan on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Is that what happened?

Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that he is preparing an executive order that would welcome U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents back to Rikers Island, but it’s unclear if he can ...

A 37-year-old man with apparent psychiatric issues accused in a Lower East Side slashing died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, the first death in the system in 2025, according to ...

By Priya Krishna Photographs by Brittainy Newman Priya Krishna and Brittainy Newman twice visited Rikers Island, where they were granted extensive access to a kitchen, its cooks and the detainees ...

A former assistant chief at New York’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office heralded Mayor Eric Adams’ vow to reopen Rikers Island to the feds, saying it is a “critical” step ...

Now, his administration is proposing a new role for Maginley-Liddie: compliance director, which would be in charge of the court-ordered overhaul of Rikers and the rest of the city's jail system.

A man detained at the Rikers Island jail complex died in custody Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far this year, officials said. The city Department of Correction said it was ...

Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein begged a Manhattan judge Wednesday to expedite his rape and sexual assault retrial so he can get off Rikers Island alive, telling the jurist he was ...