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

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.

As New York City’s first ever “close Rikers czar,” it’s Dana Kaplan’s job to get the notorious jails complex shut down ASAP.

The City Council this week demanded the Department of Correction answer long-ignored questions about how it's changed – or ...

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 ...

Stanley Richards knows how bleak life can be at Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious jail complex. As a young man, he spent two years locked ...

New York City has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to settle lawsuits brought by the families of two men who died of ...

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

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani today announced that Dana Kaplan will serve as the City's Close Rikers Czar, a new role responsible for overseeing the ...

Sid Vicious was charged with the murder of Nancy Spungen in October 1978, but died in February 1979 ...