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 ...
While running to be New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city’s jail population. Now, as he prepares to take office in just over a month and a ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Inmates can be seen fighting with mop sticks and chairs and even a knife for more than an hour. Why did officers not break it up? Investigative Reporter Sarah Wallace has covered ...
Two Corrections officers were attacked in a brutal four-hour span at Rikers Island Wednesday — including one guard who was slashed by an infamous subway knifer, union officials said. The 11-year ...
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.
A fierce dispute over a proposal to move formerly incarcerated people from Rikers Island into a hospital campus in a middle-class Bronx neighborhood raises a critical question for New York in the post ...
Environmental advocates are renewing the push to make Rikers Island a centerpiece of New York City's climate strategy as Mayor Zohran Mamdani commits to closing the jail complex there. The jails ...
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