After more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail system from City Hall, appointing a former CIA agent and correctional expert to assume sweeping authority over Rikers Island and the Department of Correction.
Read MoreViolence on Rikers Island remains pervasive as the city waits for a federal judge to appoint a receiver to take over the jails.
Read MoreThe death toll on Rikers Island continued to rise to its second-highest point in the past four years on Monday when a 33-year-old detainee died after allegedly having an allergic reaction in the city’s jail complex.
Read MoreA Rikers Island correctional officer will be fired after being found guilty this week of sexually abusing a woman in his Queens home – a decision that comes years after he was first accused by multiple detained women of sexually abusing them while on the job.
Read MoreThe City Council this week unanimously passed a bill that would require the Department of Correction to be more transparent about its use of a work release program meant to reduce the number of people housed on Rikers Island.
Read MoreA 38-year-old man on Rikers Island became the 13th person this year to die in Department of Correction custody, agency officials announced on Friday.
Read MoreThe New York City Department of Correction has regularly violated state law by illegally confining people in jail cells for over 24 hours at a time without access to proper medical care, a new lawsuit claims.
Read MoreThe search for the person who will assume significant control of the city’s notoriously violent jails, taking power away from the mayor and Department of Correction commissioner, began in earnest on Friday.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams this week expanded a successful jobs program for formerly incarcerated New Yorkers – but the expansion comes as lawmakers and advocates question the mayor’s commitment to funding social services programs aimed at lowering the city’s incarcerated population, and to the closure of Rikers Island, which is years behind schedule.
Read MoreThe number of detainees missing their medical appointments on Rikers Island has skyrocketed this summer, with a single facility within the troubled jail complex driving the spike.
Read MoreThe state consistently violates judicial orders by leaving detainees in need of psychiatric treatment ahead of their trial behind bars for months at a time, a new lawsuit alleges.
Read MoreThe city is piloting a program that gives Rikers Island detainees municipal IDs in the hopes that it eases their transition back into city life.
Read MoreFollowing the deaths of two men in courthouse holding cells earlier this year, the City Council is considering a bill that would require the city to build health clinics in all of its criminal courthouses.
Read MoreFor the ninth time this year, a person died in Department of Correction custody on Tuesday.
Read MoreA 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.
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