NYC Mayor Adams Allows Federal Agencies to Operate on Rikers Island

A new executive order from the mayor’s office allows federal law enforcement agencies, including ICE and the FBI, to set up shop at the jail complex.

A barbed wire fence outside inmate housing on New York's Rikers Island correctional facility in New York on March 16, 2011. Bebeto Matthews/AP Photo, File

NEW YORK CITY–Mayor Eric Adams’s administration issued an executive order on Tuesday allowing federal law enforcement agencies to set up office space in the city’s largest jail.

The order, issued by recently appointed Deputy Mayor and former Giuliani aide Randy Mastro on April 8, allows federal agencies to station personnel at the Rikers Island jail complex.