Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie backed down Thursday from her plan to order officers to work 12-hour tours, with the union crowing they forced her to cave on the proposal, the ...

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As a judge considers appointing a receiver to oversee the jails, there are two very different plans for how that would work.

Top officials at the Department of Correction said Friday that the mayor’s office has yet to speak with them about the ...

That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...

Adrienne Adams has made a decision: The City Council speaker is running for mayor of New York City. The late entrance by a reluctant candidate stands to shake up the Democratic primary, as her ...

Laura Gillen (D), whose district is located on neighboring Long Island, N.Y., called on him ... federal immigration officials to operate at Rikers Island. The moved marked a major change in ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a one-liner joke contest, chiptune music fest and ...

Adams, meanwhile, may try to tout his recent cooperation, including his decision to sign an executive order that allowed ICE agents back into New York City's Rikers Island jail complex.

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