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

Nicholas Deml, a former commissioner of the Vermont Department of Corrections from November 2021 until August 2025, will ...

Rikers Island's new remediation manager, who was named on Tuesday, will have authority even beyond that of the city’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Nick Deml, former commissioner of the Vermont Department of Corrections, will lead the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City. Federal district judge Laura Taylor Swain picked Deml for the role ...

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

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 ...