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 ...

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 doors.

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 ...

Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubled down on an impossible promise. In October 2019, the City Council passed a law that banned the use of any part of Rikers Island to house incarcerated persons ...

A 39-year-old man died while in custody at Rikers Island on Wednesday morning, marking the first reported death at the troubled jail since Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office. Barry Cozart died while ...

Rikers Island, one of the most notable jails in the United States, has been slated to close for almost a decade. But with a closure deadline rapidly approaching, many have said that the city hasn't ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani broke his Ramadan fast with prisoners at the controversial Rikers Island jail complex this week, describing the visit as a moment he will never forget. “People ...

The City Council wants to make it easier for thousands of Rikers Island inmates to vote by forcing jail officials to help them fix errors on their ballots — but the Department of Corrections said the ...