The judge named Nicholas Deml to oversee the city jail, a change that will test Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ability to work with ...

The notoriously violent Rikers is supposed to close in 2027 and be replaced with four smaller jails dispersed across the city ...

Rikers Island's new remediation manager, who was named on Tuesday, will have authority even beyond that of the city’s correction commissioner to push forward reforms — in an appointment that marks one ...

A federal judge chose an ex-CIA officer and Vermont corrections commissioner to lead operations at the troubled Rikers Island ...

After seven months of reviewing candidates, a federal judge overseeing Rikers Island announced the appointment of Nicholas ...

Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain handing control of Rikers Island to her appointee Nicholas Deml must be respected by Mayor Mamdani and his Department of Correction. Deml, backed up by ...

Nicholas Deml, a former commissioner of the Vermont Department of Corrections from November 2021 until August 2025, will begin oversight of the jail complex, relieving New York City and Mayor ...

After finding the city in contempt of 18 court orders to reduce violence and the use of excessive force on Rikers Island in ...

After more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...