Mayor Mamdani officially named Dana Kaplan the inaugural Close Rikers czar on April 28. She has spent a decade working to close the jail.
The city has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to the families of two men who died on Rikers Island of methadone overdoses, ...
New York City has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to settle lawsuits brought by the families of two men who died of ...
The city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed ...
Almost a decade ago, plans were made to shut down Rikers Island for good. Here's the deadline the city was given to shut its ...
As New York City barrels toward a legally mandated shutdown of Rikers Island after years of delays and fierce opposition, the ...
Rikers Island, one of the most notable jails in the United States, has been slated to close for almost a decade. But with a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stanley Richards knows how bleak life can be at Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious jail complex. As a ...
Rikers Island, New York City's most notorious jail complex, sits in the water between the Bronx and Queens. When I visited the complex in April 2025, I expected it to be hard to reach — and I wasn't ...
NEW YORK — Facing the looming prospect of a federal takeover, New York City’s troubled Rikers Island jail complex is failing to meet a court-ordered requirement to properly clean and maintain its ...
The New York jail complex uses video games as part of its strategy to reduce violence with programming for good behavior.
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