City Limits contacted all 51 members of the City Council, the five borough presidents and the three citywide officials to ask whether they support closing Rikers.
The jury is still out on whether reforms – segregating the most violent inmates, a crackdown on smuggling, faster use-of-force investigations – will be effective.
George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island, seen from the Bronx.
The Vernon C. Bain Center, a jail barge docked off the South Bronx.
The Brooklyn House of Detention. In the face…
The key question might not be whether the city should live without Rikers, or how it would do so, but whether it has the political will to finish the transformation…
Johnny Hincapie, recently released on bail to await a possible new trial for his alleged role in the 1990 Brian Watkins murder, spoke about his experiences in prison and in…
New York State’s prisons have shed a quarter of their inmates in the past 15 years, but the ranks of correction officers have thinned by a substantially smaller amount. Does…
In the wake of the killing of Officer Randolph Holder, Mayor de Blasio called for bail decisions to take public safety into account. But Sen. Michael Gianaris is still hoping…
Judge Eduardo Padro turned down Johnny Hincapie’s request for a finding of actual innocence but said Hincapie’s lawyers had met the threshold to get their client’s conviction tossed. READ…
The mayor has limited it. The Council is going to start paying it on some defendants’ behalf. Now the state’s chief judge is taking unprecedented steps to rein it…
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