The Mamdani administration plans to reduce Rikers Island inmate populations by expanding supervised release, alternatives to incarceration and early release. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to mindlessly ...

The city has appointed its first-ever “close Rikers czar,” tasking a longtime criminal justice reformer with getting its long-delayed plan to shutter the troubled jail complex back on track.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to mindlessly free perps held at Rikers is a carbon copy of the de Blasio-era drive that immediately sent crime rates soaring; New Yorkers have zero reason to expect a ...