A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill ... emergency that night while incarcerated at the Vierno Center at the jail, according to the city Department of Correction.

“As the record in this case demonstrates, the current rates of use of force, stabbings and slashings, fights ... those who live and work in the Rikers Island jails.” For that reason, the ...

Another person died on Rikers Island Monday night ... Vierno Center, one of the facilities at the sprawling jail complex. The staff provided aid and activated a medical emergency, officials ...

By Hurubie Meko and Jan Ransom In the first three months of the year, five people have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York or shortly after being released from city custody ...

The Adams administration is preparing to reopen a jail facility on Rikers Island to add space for convicted people who should be moved to state custody but can’t right now because of post-strike ...

Executive Order 50 would allow federal law enforcement, including the ICE, to establish offices on Rikers Island.

Federal immigration enforcers are welcome back to the New York City jail complex on Rikers Island — after a decade in exile under the city’s sanctuary-city laws — according to a mayoral ...

ICE will be allowed to return to Rikers Island under a new executive order ... immigration officials to reopen offices on the jail complex — fulfilling a demand of President Trump’s ...

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Chelsia Rose Marcius For years, a handful of federal immigration agents worked out of a trailer office at the jail complex on Rikers Island in New York City.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at the Rikers Island jail to work on gang and drug-related criminal investigations NEW YORK -- New York City ...

New York City is allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to return to its Rikers Island prison following recent demands placed on Mayor Eric Adams by the Trump administration.

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) ...