On March 31st, 2017 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the closing of infamous jail facility Rikers Island. In this piece I speak with Janos Marton is the director of policy and campaigns for Just Leadership USA the group that led a multi-organization campaign to Close Rikers and

Jarrett Murphy the executive editor and publisher of City Limits a NYC based online investigative news magazine about why Rikers is closing and how de Blasio plans to do it.