The Independent Rikers Commission, a collective tasked with examining the city’s plan to close Rikers Island, has unveiled a critical blueprint for reform and closure of the infamous jail complex that ...

The Justice Policy Institute’s (JPI) newest report titled “A Moment of Reckoning,” which delineates a criminal justice reform gameplan.

New York City should create two new positions to oversee the closure of Rikers Island, which is mandated to take place by 2027 but is now already up to a half-decade late because the new borough ...