Opinion: How New York Is Failing Those Left Behind At Rikers Island | City Limits

Rikers, as usual, is in the news. From the calls for New York to move towards true decarceration by closing Rikers, to the heated public discourse surrounding the plans to open smaller, borough jails , Rikers has permeated and pierced every conversation as a profoundly inhumane institution, desperately in need of immediate action paired with radical changes to New York’s deeply broken criminal justice system. Read more.