The population on Rikers Island has risen to 7,067 people this week, the highest total since 2019 — and almost twice as high as the target number needed for the longstanding plan to transfer incarceration operations to four borough-based jails.  Department of Correction officials blame a host of factors: the state prison strike jamming so-called […]

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