Mayor Mamdani officially named Dana Kaplan the inaugural Close Rikers czar on April 28. She has spent a decade working to ...

For decades, the unfixable Rikers Island has hurt New Yorkers — those inside the massive complex’s walls and all of us beyond them. Under city law, the Mamdani administration must produce a plan to ...

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 doors.

The city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed ...

Houlder and Hawkins are set to return to Bronx court on July 1. The pretrial phase could surface more of the surveillance footage that prosecutors say undercuts the officers’ written reports, and it ...

New York City’s new correction commissioner is the first formerly incarcerated person to oversee the city’s jails.

The New York jail complex uses video games as part of its strategy to reduce violence with programming for good behavior.