Council working on bill to push back Rikers Island closure deadline
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The City Council is currently drafting a bill to extend the deadline to close Rikers and replace it with four borough-based jails
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City revives long-stalled element of Rikers closure plan
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After former Mayor Eric Adams stalled on a key element of the plan to close Rikers Island, the Mamdani administration on Monday reversed course, transferring three jail facilities out of Department of Correction control and reviving a jail decommissioning process required by city law.
Read MoreCity misses deadline to release Rikers shutdown plan
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The city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed effort to shutter the dangerous jail complex without a clear path forward.
Read MoreCity to open long-delayed Bellevue jail ward as Rikers closure effort restarts
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The city on Wednesday will welcome patients to a long-delayed jail ward at Bellevue Hospital, finally putting to use a 104-bed unit that has sat unused since early 2025.
Read MoreStaffing woes continue to stall opening of completed Bellevue jail ward
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The city still doesn’t have a timeline to open an already-constructed hospital jail ward meant to hold detainees with serious physical illness, despite new leadership in City Hall and the Department of Correction, who say they are fully committed to reversing the massive delay.
Read MoreCouncil and mayor’s office clash over Rikers’ closure plan
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The mayor’s office and the City Council remained in a standoff over the closure of Rikers Island on Wednesday, unable to agree on how the city should chart a new path toward shutting the deadly jail complex.
Read MoreDays after commission issues plan to close Rikers, mayor charts his own path – with few details
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Two days after a city-appointed commission unveiled a new plan to close Rikers Island, Mayor Eric Adams began to chart his own path regarding the dangerous jail complex’s future.
Read MoreRikers replacement in Manhattan to open five years after jail complex’s closure
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While it’s long been expected, the contract presented for Manhattan’s borough-based jail made it official – none of the new jails will be completed before Rikers is required to close.
Read MoreWith receivership looming, what could the future of Rikers look like?
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Part two of the Eagle’s deep dive into the history of Rikers and how it may impact the troubled jail complex’s future.
Read MoreThe city has three years to close Rikers – can it be done?
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As the three-year countdown to the closure of the jails on Rikers Island begins this week, major questions remain about whether or not the city will – or even can – meet the August 2027 deadline to shutter the notorious complex.
Read MoreFour billion dollars and four years late: Queens jail is over budget and behind schedule
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Queens’ borough-based jail set to be built in Kew Gardens will cost taxpayers at least $4 billion and may be completed four years after the city’s legally-mandated deadline to close Rikers Island, city records show.
Read MoreMayor claims borough-based jails can’t be built by Rikers’ closure deadline
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Repeating what top members of his administration have begun to suggest in recent weeks, Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that his administration has little to no shot of building four borough-based jails by the time Rikers Island is legally-mandated to shutter as a jail complex in 2027.
Read MoreMayor calls for new Rikers closure proposal as his administration fails to follow current plan
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Mayor Eric Adams doubled down on his opposition to the plan to close Rikers Island on Tuesday and called on the City Council to craft a new proposal to close the city’s jail complex where over two dozen people have died since the mayor took office last year.
Read MoreAdams administration continues to miss Rikers closure deadlines
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The Adams administration has yet to complete a single transfer of land on Rikers Island, a crucial part of the city’s plan to turn the jail complex into a renewable energy hub by 2027.
Read MoreBrooklyn’s borough-based jail proposal expands by 150 beds
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Brooklyn’s borough-based jail facility, one of four facilities expected to replace Rikers Island before the end of the decade, will be larger than originally anticipated, the city revealed this week.
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