Jails

Mayor Eric Adams talks with people in custody on Rikers Island on Thursday, July 7, 2022.

Jails

Federal Judge Orders Appointment of Rikers Island ‘Remediation Manager’

May 13, 2025, 12:44 p.m.May 14, 2025, 10:16 a.m.

Fourteen years after the filing of a landmark class-action lawsuit over brutality in city jails, a judge has ruled that a third-party should manage the Department of Correction.

The Horizon Juvenile Center in the Mott Haven.

Juvenile Justice

City’s Youth Lockups Are Failing Vulnerable Detainees, State Audit Finds

April 10, 2025, 5:28 p.m.April 10, 2025, 5:28 p.m.

The report from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli blames the istration for Children’s Services for a raft of issues concerning operations and oversight.

The Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island.

Jails

Rikers Island Forced to Reopen Closed Jail as Understaffed State Prisons Refuse Transfers

April 3, 2025, 5:47 p.m.April 3, 2025, 5:47 p.m.

Some 500 people waiting to be sent to upstate prisons won’t be moved until at least late April, THE CITY has learned.

Rikers Island

City Jail Population Sures 7,000, Headed in Wrong Direction for Close-Rikers Plan

March 20, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 4, 2025, 3:27 p.m.

By law, the city will be legally barred from using Rikers jails after 2027, but the move-out can happen only if there are less than 5,000 people behind bars.

Department of Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley Liddie testifies at a City Council budget hearing.

Jails

Rikers Now Looks to Bring Back Nonprofits After Kicking Them Off Island

March 7, 2025, 5:22 p.m.March 7, 2025, 5:25 p.m.

Two years ago, Department of Correction officials said they could cut costs by in-sourcing social and educational programs for detainees. It did not work out.

People wait in line to visit loved ones detained on Rikers Island.

Jails

At Rikers Commissary, Prices Exceed Those at Local Stores Despite Pledge to Bring Costs Down

Feb. 26, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 13, 2025, 3:02 p.m.

A spot check by THE CITY following our investigation finds a private company charging huge markups under an agreement that was supposed to rein them in.