who was then an employee of a Rikers Island contractor and a former Rikers inmate, smuggled contraband into the jail in exchange for more than $64,000. From March 2022 through June 2022 ...
In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can’t close by 2027, but the ...
Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...
more New Yorkers will suffer from case delays and be forced to languish on Rikers Island, further exacerbating the already ...
Her death is the fourth death of a Rikers detainee so far this year, and follows that of Ariel Quidone, 20, last week and ...
State prison officials said they will re-evaluate accepting new prisoners at the end of the month, while advocates said incarcerated people are desperate to get off Rikers Island. The complex is ...
That could see a court-appointed outside authority take charge of Rikers Island by early next… Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail Former Trump ...
NEW YORK — A commission that supports closing the jail on Rikers Island acknowledged Wednesday ... also called for transferring mentally ill inmates to psychiatric facilities and expanding ...
The new facility will be part of the solution to closing Rikers Island. Adams has tapped his new First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro to build the new jail for ... roughly 7,100 inmates on Rikers ...
Bon appétit — from Rikers Island. Lefty Upper West Side Councilwoman Gale Brewer is pushing the city to feed jailbirds “farm-to-table” meals, like ones served up at some of the Big Apple ...