New York City's plan to close Rikers Island faces delays and political opposition, while Mayor Mamdani has taken steps to ...

For New York City’s mayor, the hard part isn’t deciding whether or not to shut down Rikers, but figuring out how to do it safely and in a timely way.

New York City’s $16 billion plan to close Rikers Island involves four smaller facilities that tout a more humane vision of carceral buildings. Some activists think that’s an oxymoron.

Mayor Mamdani last Thursday unveiled the city’s plan to improve conditions on Rikers Island — by undoing years of executive ...

Welcome to Riker's Island in New York City, a place where detainees await their trials. Although it's technically a jail, inmates often spend more than a few days here. Some spend weeks, others years.

Last month, a federal monitor overseeing the city’s Department of Correction said the agency remains mired in the same ...

Richards hopes to chart “a path of hope" as NYC jails have been riddled in controversy for years. New York City Mayor Zohran Mandami continues to build his cabinet with a newly appointed head of the ...

A federal judge ruled in 2022 that "no legitimate humane system would operate" like Arizona's prison health care system.

Prosecution court documents allege that authorities seized an assault rifle and other weapons from the defendant who used extreme violence and intimidation to extort payment from victims. His brutal ...

ICE has the money it needs to turn warehouses into prisons for immigrants. But local pressure stopped one project in its ...

On a normal Wednesday morning, a correction officer at Rikers Island was making his routine rounds when he felt what he later described as “sandpaper” scrape across his face. It was not sandpaper but ...