As New York City barrels toward a legally mandated shutdown of Rikers Island after years of delays and fierce opposition, the Mamdani administration has tapped a key architect and booster of the original plan to help see it through. Dana Kaplan, who helped coordinate the city’s blueprint to close the troubled jail complex, has been […]

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