![George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island, seen from the Bronx.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20151008Talwar-Rikers7849-771x514.jpg)
Adi Talwar
George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island, seen from the Bronx.
![The Vernon C. Bain Center, a jail barge docked off the South Bronx.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20151008Talwar-PrisonBarge7717-771x514.jpg)
Adi Talwar
The Vernon C. Bain Center, a jail barge docked off the South Bronx.
![The Brooklyn House of Detention. In the face of community opposition, the Bloomberg administration scaled back plans to move a significant number of Rikers detainees here, and also scrapped plans for a borough-based jail in the Bronx.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/bhod2-771x578.jpg)
Jarrett Murphy
The Brooklyn House of Detention. In the face of community opposition, the Bloomberg administration scaled back plans to move a significant number of Rikers detainees here, and also scrapped plans for a borough-based jail in the Bronx.
![Transporting detainees to and from court from Rikers costs the city tens of millions of dollars each year.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/DOC-van-1-771x578.jpg)
Jarrett Murphy
Transporting detainees to and from court from Rikers costs the city tens of millions of dollars each year.
![The facade of the criminal court building in Manhattan. Rikers is in many ways an extension of an overburdened, slow-moving court system.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/quote-771x578.jpg)
Jarrett Murphy
The facade of the criminal court building in Manhattan. Rikers is in many ways an extension of an overburdened, slow-moving court system.
series on “Closing Rikers.”