New York City's infamous jail Rikers Island houses nearly 7,000 detainees. Chefs, not inmates, do the cooking. And while they ...

For New York City’s mayor, the hard part isn’t deciding whether or not to shut down Rikers, but figuring out how to do it ...

New York City’s $16 billion plan to close Rikers Island involves four smaller facilities that tout a more humane vision of carceral buildings. Some activists think that’s an oxymoron.

I spent three-and-a-half years on Rikers Island, as both an adolescent and adult. During this time, I experienced and witnessed countless episodes of abuse and neglect, including frequent medical and ...

The Rikers Island jail complex, a notorious and decrepit institution sitting on 413 acres in the East River, was slated for closure well before New York City became the country’s epicenter of the ...