The vast majority of people detained at Rikers are waiting for their day in court and have not been convicted of any crime.

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy spoke with Marcia Kramer on this week's episode ...

Over the past four years, an unlikely alliance of advocates for people behind bars and former Department of Correction ...

A federal judge has decided to take control of New York’s Rikers Island jail away from city officials due to years of ...

In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote that manager will "support remediation of the ... of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager This past ...

Through the receivership order, the city will transfer power over local jails to a third-party expert appointed by the federal courts.

Remediation manager” sounds more like a third-rank bureaucrat or elementary school reading specialist than a revolutionary ...