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Adams Administration Inks Executive Order Allowing ICE Back on Rikers Island
New York City First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro signed an executive order Tuesday allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
Adams administration will allow ICE to open office on Rikers Island
The Adams administration is making good on a promise to allow federal immigration agents to open an office on Rikers Island ...
Adams Administration Will Give ICE Space to Operate on Rikers Island
An executive order says federal immigration agents would work with city officials on criminal investigations only. Critics ...
NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams ripped for calling Rikers Island ‘death camp’ – while admitting troubled jail won’t close by 2027
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called Rikers Island a “death camp” Monday even as she admitted the troubled jail complex ...
Eric Adams rips NYC lawmaker who called for Rikers closure then gripes about jail construction in his own district: ‘Hypocrite’
Mayor Adams’ office slammed Brooklyn lawmaker Lincoln Restler as a “hypocrite” for championing the closure of the Rikers Island but complaining about the construction of a new ...
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Rikers Island Forced to Reopen Closed Jail as Understaffed State Prisons Refuse Transfers
Some 500 people waiting to be sent to upstate prisons won’t be moved until at least late April, THE CITY has learned.