Judge ‘inclined’ to strip city of control of Rikers Island
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A federal takeover of Rikers Island has never been more of a possibility.
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Mayor makes vague pitch to turn borough-based jail into mental health treatment facility
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Mayor Eric Adams pitched a vague plan to turn one of the city’s proposed – and extremely delayed – borough-based jail facilities into a mental health treatment jail, confusing advocates and lawmakers who say the mayor has thus far resisted calls to support treatment facilities and programs for detainees.
Read MoreMonitor says Rikers remains dangerous as judge mulls federal takeover
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As a potential federal takeover of Rikers Island looms over the city, a court-appointed monitor said in a highly anticipated report that violence and dysfunction has continued to plague the jail complex and the agency that runs it over much of the past year.
Read MoreDOC boss denies knowing about Rikers’ ‘worst-kept secret’
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The head of the city’s Department of Correction had little to say when asked about allegations that officers regularly lock up detainees with mental health issues for days or weeks at a time in solitary confinement, blocking their access to medication and attention from doctors.
Read More‘Ignored at every turn’: Family of woman who died after allegedly being denied care on Rikers to sue city
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The family of Charizma Jones, a 23-year-old woman who died after allegedly being denied medical care on Rikers Island, plans to sue the city for $50 million.
Read MoreTwo years after man hanged himself on Rikers, family says city failed him
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Multiple city agencies failed to help a man suffering from a mental health crisis in the lead up to his death on Rikers Island in 2022, an amended wrongful death lawsuit claims.
Read MoreRikers detainees missed over a third of medical appointments last year, BOC says
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Over one-third of all detainees on Rikers Island who requested a trip to the doctor last year were never taken to their scheduled appointment, a new report from the Department of Correction’s watchdog says.
Read MoreThe city has three years to close Rikers – can it be done?
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As the three-year countdown to the closure of the jails on Rikers Island begins this week, major questions remain about whether or not the city will – or even can – meet the August 2027 deadline to shutter the notorious complex.
Read MoreRikers detainee dies of alleged medical emergency
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A man being held on Rikers Island died on Tuesday in a Queens hospital after suffering an apparent medical emergency.
Read More‘Insult on top of injury’: Attys claim DOC falsified records about Rikers detainee’s death
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A new filing in a wrongful death lawsuit claims that the city’s Department of Correction falsely claimed in records that they acted quickly to provide Narcan to a 26-year-old dying of an overdose on Rikers Island in 2022 when instead it was the man’s brother, coincidently being held in the cell next door, who attempted to revive his sibling just before he died.
Read MoreMayor suspends solitary confinement ban
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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again. That’s the platitude Mayor Eric Adams has appeared to employ in his attempts to skirt around a new law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails.
Read MoreCouncil prepares take Adams admin to court over solitary ban
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The fight over a law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails continued on Thursday when the City Council opened the door to taking legal action against the Adams administration, which asked a judge last month to allow them to skirt the law’s implementation.
Read MoreWith Rikers in crisis, power struggle within jail watchdog board overshadows oversight efforts
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The Board of Correction on Tuesday spent around an hour of its meeting engaged in an internal power struggle instead of discussing the top item on its agenda – the crisis regarding the city’s stalled plan to close Rikers Island by 2027.
Read MoreJustice delayed: Lengthy stays on Rikers jump as cases slow in courts
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The number of detainees who have had to wait three years or longer on Rikers Island while their cases sluggishly make their way through the court system has increased by nearly 180 percent in the last half decade, according to a new report.
Read MoreRikers receivership case sluggishly moves forward
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For the first time in nearly seven months, the city’s Department of Correction on Tuesday appeared before the federal judge currently considering whether or not the city should be stripped of its control of Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex that has seen over two dozen deaths in the past two years.
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