Justice
Jailing New York: A Photo Essay
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Read the City & State/ City Limitsseries on “Closing Rikers.”
Closing Rikers
Behind the Growing Calls to Close Rikers Island
Ed Morales |
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 that has already started.
In Depth
Video Report: Barriers to Getting Work After Prison Remain
Marc Bussanich |
It’s an era of criminal justice reform and a growing consensus that we’ve put too many people behind bars. But two experts say that hasn’t made it any easier for people caught in the incarceration wave to find employment on the outside.
bail
Solving Jail Mental Health Crisis … Before Jail
Jarrett Murphy |
Reforms unveiled this week by the de Blasio administration were cast as an effort to improve services for the mentally ill on Rikers Island. But much of the plan focuses on keeping people from entering custody in the first place.
