Mastro said the order would re-establish office space at the prison island for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI, and other federal agencies “solely for criminal investigations, consistent with New York City law, after Mayor Adams delegated all powers and responsibilities related to this topic to me.”
“This directive is driven by one priority and one priority alone: to keep all New Yorkers safe,” he said in a statement. “The city had a similar arrangement with federal authorities as recently as a decade ago, but this time, the focus will be exclusively on criminal investigations.”
Mastro said that re-establishing the office space will allow the city’s correctional intelligence bureau to “better coordinate on criminal investigations — in particular, those focused on violent transnational
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