If a federal judge follows through with her threat to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island, she should make sure ...

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

With every contract City Hall signs for new jails to replace Rikers, the completion date gets further and further away.

Outside Rikers Island jails (photo: Gerardo Romo/NYC Council Media Unit ... Such a scheme would cost up to 15% more than the borough-based jail plan and take years longer to finish. Demolition and ...

For nearly a decade, a federal judge has been pushing to end abuse and violence in the jails on Rikers Island. With chronic staffing shortages ... the original one in 2017 that developed the plan to ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle ...

For New Yorkers seeking an end to generations of violence, dysfunction and racially disparate incarceration at Rikers Island, last year brought a glimmer ... can magically pinpoint complex outcomes ...

This summary is reviewed by TRD Staff. Former HFZ Capital exec Nir Meir was denied a significant bail reduction and will remain in Rikers Island jail unless he can pay $5 million cash or $7.5 ...

“By the city’s own estimate, it would cost up to 15% more to rebuild jails on Rikers than to build them in the communities,” Katznelson said. “So we’re really excited that plans are ...

By Priya Krishna Photographs by Brittainy Newman Priya Krishna and Brittainy Newman twice visited Rikers Island, where they were granted extensive access to a kitchen, its cooks and the detainees ...

Federal judge will hear arguments on potential takeover of New York City’s troubled jail system A federal judge has agreed to begin a process that could wrest control of New York City's troubled ...