Unlike other city ticket-writing agencies, the NYPD still writes 100% of its civil tickets by hand.

Monday marks one year from the August 31, 2027 deadline to close Rikers Island and repurpose the land toward future environmental use.

Leader of the Renewable Rikers Coalition Michael Higgins, Darren Mack, of the Freedom Agenda, and Tom Grech, of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, join the show this week.

A plan filed this week includes Deml’s initial assessment of the city’s jails and his top priorities over the next year.

"Rikers is not only a criminal justice crisis. It is also an environmental failure that demands urgency. Closing it is not just about decarceration, it’s about repairing harm, restoring communities, a...

When I chose to speak publicly to the Daily News about conditions in the mental health units on Rikers Island, I expected criticism and scrutiny. What I did not expect was learning, as I walked into m...

Advocates and City Council members seeking to get the city moving on closing Rikers Island say Mayor Zohran Mamdani needs to allocate tens of millions more in

The commissioner of the Department of Correction on Tuesday defended a nearly 600-officer cut proposed by the mayor, despite asking the City Council for more funds to hire and recruit officers only a ...

Voters and criminal justice reformers and advocates said Mamdani is continuing policies initiated by his predecessor.