{"id":1320,"date":"2026-04-14T21:26:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:27:14","slug":"ballots-behind-bars-council-pushes-rikers-island-voting-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/04\/14\/ballots-behind-bars-council-pushes-rikers-island-voting-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballots behind bars: Council pushes Rikers Island voting overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Reuven Blau<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York City lawmakers are pushing to overhaul how people jailed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2025\/01\/10\/rikers-island-cat-rescue-sanctuary\/\">Rikers Island<\/a>\u00a0cast their votes after just 335 of roughly 6,000 eligible detainees cast absentee ballots in the last general election, officials said Tuesday. LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2026\/04\/14\/incarceration-voting-rights-ballot-rikers-island-elections\/\">Ballots behind bars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reuven Blau<\/p>\n<p>New York City lawmakers are pushing to overhaul how people jailed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2025\/01\/10\/rikers-island-cat-rescue-sanctuary\/\">Rikers Island<\/a>\u00a0cast their votes after just 335 of roughly 6,000 eligible detainees cast absentee ballots in the last general election, officials said Tuesday. LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2026\/04\/14\/incarceration-voting-rights-ballot-rikers-island-elections\/\">Ballots behind bars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rikers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}