New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has tapped an ex-con to run the city’s embattled corrections system, with his appointee set to oversee the same jail where he served time for robbery in the 1980s.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that New York City Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s desire to close Rikers Island if elected is “not good” in response to a question from Breitbart News.
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) voiced support for closing Rikers Island during Wednesday night’s final mayoral debate.
A federal judge has reportedly ordered an outside official to take over Rikers Island jail, which has been riddled with violence and catastrophe.
New York City has allowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to reopen its facilities on Rikers Island.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) are under mounting pressure to suspend the city and state’s sanctuary policy that shields criminal illegal aliens from deportation.
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin predicts former President Donald Trump will be sent to Rikers Island to serve a prison sentence.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced that the city’s Department of Corrections was prepared to imprison former President Donald Trump at Rikers Island.
A group of illegal immigrants who were arrested and released after allegedly robbing a New York City store and assaulting police officers have finally been picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for “removal proceedings,” officials said.
A pair of suspected drug dealers have been hit with nearly 50 charges after they allegedly tried to smuggle court documents infused with fentanyl, cocaine, and PCP into jail, New York City officials say.
The lawsuit claims that the male inmate told a person at the women’s prison that he was not transgender and was just there “to get p***y.”
A woman who worked as a Brooklyn courthouse employee allegedly stole $473,000 over the course of a decade, per a court transcript.
New York City bodega worker Jose Alba told the House Judiciary Committee about his harrowing experience being jailed for fighting off an attacker in self-defense and that the incident left him fearful of facing gang retaliation.
New York’s Department of Corrections reportedly fired a Rikers Island guard after he allegedly had sex multiple times with an inmate.
A man who identifies as a woman has been convicted of raping a female inmate while being kept in the women’s section of Rikers Island.
AOC promoted bail reform efforts just one day after the Waukesha, Wisconsin, Christmas parade, where the suspect was released on $1000 bond.
Inmates have “seized near total control over entire units” at New York City’s infamous Rikers Island jail, a report details. Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has long claimed he will shutter the jail and build prisons in New York City neighborhoods to house inmates.
Short-staffing issues at Riker’s Island cause chaos as brawls, parties, and overdoses are normal at the correctional facility.
Inmates are reportedly out of control on Rikers Island due to a staffing shortage that has left them free to stab one another, answer phones, and run along corridors destroying maintenance equipment, according to the New York Post.
Republican primary candidate Fernando Mateo, who is running in the upcoming New York City mayoral election, discussed his career, his views, and why he would make a successful mayor, while blasting Democrats for having “destroyed” the City That Never Sleeps.
A murder suspect who was accidentally released from a New York City jail in March has been re-apprehended, police said.
Eleven corrections officers were injured during multiple inmate attacks this past week at Rikers Island jail in New York City.
An off-duty New York City Rikers Island correction officer was shot dead in Queens early Saturday, according to the police.
A Rikers Island inmate who was caught after attempting to escape last Thursday tried again Sunday and did not succeed.
At least 250 convicted and accused criminals freed from New York’s Rikers Island prison have been rearrested 450 times thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) jailbreak directive.
More than 100 inmates freed from New York’s Rikers Island prison complex over fears of the Chinese coronavirus spreading have since been rearrested for crimes, new details reveal.
While New York City, New York remains under lockdown orders from Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, major violent crime continues to soar.
An accused rapist released from Riker’s Island in New York due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic was arrested for allegedly raping a woman in Brooklyn days later.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is attempting to use the Chinese coronavirus pandemic as a means to pursue progressive “decarceral policy” and called for the release of older criminals from the Rikers Island complex, declaring that the United States “must ensure” that it is granting “elderly clemency.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was moved Thursday to an infirmary unit at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex after undergoing a heart procedure at the hospital where he’d been held since his conviction last month on rape and sexual assault charges.
Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was taken to hospital in New York suffering from chest pains, hours after he was found guilty of rape and sexual assault.
Onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is expected to be transferred this month to Rikers Island jail, where he is “likely” to be placed in solitary confinement, according to reports.
