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

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 ...

A federal judge Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be run by an official who reports directly to the court. In the past 50 years, a ...

Mamdani announced the new role of a 'close Rikers czar' ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The city has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to the families of two men who died on Rikers Island of methadone overdoses, ...