Some detainees on Rikers Island haven’t been allowed outside for recreational time for over a year, according to officials with the jail’s independent watchdog board.
Read MoreIn a single month last year, Department of Correction officers used pepper spray on eight different detainees attempting to hang themselves, highlighting a concerning pattern in violation of department policy, according to a new report from the department’s citizen watchdog board.
Read MoreNearly all of the four men who died on Rikers Island in the second half of last year entered the troubled jail complex with mental health and addiction issues, and failed to receive regular medical care or adequate supervision from the Department of Correction, a new report from the Board of Correction found.
Read MoreTop officials at the city’s Department of Correction and its independent, citizen watchdog group the Board of Correction took the tenants of the new year to heart on Wednesday, promising to have a more collaborative and less confrontational 2024 than they did 2023.
Read MoreDetainees were held in locked cells that were filling up with smoke for nearly a half hour as a fire spread through a Rikers Island facility in April, a new report from the city’s Board of Correction found.
Read MoreLouis Molina appeared before the Board of Correction for last time as commissioner of the Department of Correction this week. For most of his tenure, Molina largely ignored and fought with the oversight body.
Read MoreAfter having been accused by judges, advocates, lawmakers, oversight agencies, attorneys and others of failing to be transparent about what happens on Rikers Island, the Department of Correction may be legally required to open its records, video recordings and more to an oversight board should two bills set to be introduced in the City Council on Thursday pass into law.
Read MoreThe watchdog board charged with keeping tabs on the New York City Department of Correction will again have the ability to view surveillance footage from inside the city’s jails remotely after the agency settled a lawsuit late last week.
Read MoreThe embattled chair of the Department of Correction’s oversight body was missing in action on Friday during the Board of Correction’s monthly meeting, the first to be held since the oversight board sued the DOC over the agency’s decision to revoke the board’s remote access to video surveillance footage from within Rikers Island.
Read MoreThe Board of Correction, the citizen watchdog board charged with providing oversight to the Department of Correction, sued the agency in an effort to regain unfettered access to video from within Rikers Island after DOC brass revoked the board’s ability to view it remotely earlier this year.
Read MoreRikers Island’s population is growing larger when it should be getting smaller. DOC Commissioner Louis Molina said the blame lies with the state court system during a Board of Correction meeting this week.
Read MoreThe Board of Correction’s monthly meeting fell into chaos after technical difficulties left the board’s livestream sputtering, and after the board’s chair clashed with a criminal justice reform advocate and his fellow board members agitated by the board’s inability to hold its scheduled public hearing.
Read MoreA controversial plan to intercept and digitize detainee mail on Rikers Island has again been kept in limbo after the city’s jail oversight body declined to vote on the plan, months after it was first introduced.
Read MoreIn an ironic twist, the Board of Correction’s plan to vote on a controversial proposal from the Department of Correction to use technology to digitize detainees’ mail was thwarted by faulty technology on Tuesday.
Read MoreThe Board of Correction will form a committee to discuss jail officials’ controversial plan to intercept detainee mail on Rikers Island. The Department of Correction claims that the mail is increasingly being used to send drugs and other contraband into the jails. The claim is heavily disputed.
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