If Mamdani succeeds in closing Rikers Island, compulsory decarceration would become a permanent feature of the city’s ...

A 49-year-old man from Queens awaiting trial on Rikers Island died on Sunday, becoming the second detainee in the troubled ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced the opening of a new, quarter billion hospital unit for city inmates complete with ...

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced the opening of a first-of-its-kind outposted therapeutic housing unit as a ...

The long-delayed opening of the 104-bed unit comes with the decommissioning of the North Infirmary Command, the jail ...

Two men who had been held on Rikers Island died in the past week, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would “pursue every avenue ...

City Department of Correction officials said John Price, 49, was being held without bail at the Eric M. Taylor Center on ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — There have now been two people who’ve died on Rikers Island within the last week. 49-year-old John Price, ...

Next Mile NYC is designed for justice-involved New Yorkers who meet vocational eligibility and residency rules and who are ...

Court oversight meets lived experience at Rikers. Advocates are cautiously optimistic as new leaders start work.

Advocates are urging the Mamdani administration to transfer a long-vacant Rikers Island jail facility out of Department of ...