Leadership of the notoriously problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex has officially fallen into federal hands with the ...

Former Vermont Corrections Commissioner Nick Deml has been appointed as remediation manager for the troubled New York City ...

Deml will be in charge of decision-making for the troubled jail complex and will report directly to a federal judge.

After years of court battles, debate, and continued concerns about violence and excessive force plaguing the troubled jails system, a federal judge officially appointed former CIA officer Nicholas ...

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 ...

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

Nick Deml, the former commissioner for the Vermont Department of Corrections has been appointed by a federal judge to take ...

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

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

La La Anthony opens up about the impact of her prison reform initiative, the ThreeSixty Program at New York City's notorious ...

Nicholas Deml, former CIA and Vermont official, is appointed as Rikers Island's new remediation manager with significant reform authority.

In 2019, the New York City Council and then-mayor Bill de Blasio set a deadline for closing the jail facilities on Rikers Island. As part of that plan, the council authorized the construction of four ...