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 ...

Rikers Island, one of the most notable jails in the United States, has been slated to close for almost a decade. But with a ...

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.

For decades, the unfixable Rikers Island has hurt New Yorkers — those inside the massive complex’s walls and all of us beyond ...

The city has appointed its first-ever “close Rikers czar,” tasking a longtime criminal justice reformer with getting its long ...

One detainee was found dead with 66 pills in his cell. Another lay in distress for five minutes during an apparent overdose ...

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

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 ...