City announces new Rikers reentry pilot program
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The city is piloting a program that gives Rikers Island detainees municipal IDs in the hopes that it eases their transition back into city life.
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Queens atty cleared of charges after Rikers guards said he brought drug-soaked papers to client
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The Bronx district attorney’s office will not bring charges against a Queens lawyer who was publicly accused by correctional officers of trying to sneak drug-laced papers into Rikers Island.
Read MoreRikers watchdog praises DOC commissioner even as judge gets set to appoint receiver
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As a federal judge moves forward with her plan to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island, her longtime federal monitor said last week in a new report that while the city’s management of the troubled jails has seen some significant improvements in recent months, the violence and dysfunction that has long plagued Rikers remains.
Read MoreJails oversight board blasts DOC for quietly opening new restrictive unit
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The city’s jail watchdog board bashed Department of Correction leadership Tuesday after the agency failed to tell them about a new punitive housing unit opened in alleged chaotic fashion last week.
Read MoreWith receivership looming, what could the future of Rikers look like?
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Part two of the Eagle’s deep dive into the history of Rikers and how it may impact the troubled jail complex’s future.
Read More‘I cried that whole night’: Families say DOC did little to tell them their loved ones died on Rikers
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A City Council bill discussed Friday would define the procedures the DOC and Correctional Health Services – the branch of the city’s hospital system that provides medical care on Rikers Island – should take to notify an incarcerated person’s emergency contacts when that person is seriously injured, hospitalized or attempts suicide.
Read MoreCouncil looks to ban recording of detainee phone calls
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The City Council on Thursday introduced a bill that they say would stop the city’s Department of Correction from recording calls made by detainees inside Rikers Island without first getting a warrant.
Read MoreFormer Corrections boss to lead Deptartment of Citywide Administrative Services
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Former Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina has been tapped by Mayor Eric Adams to lead the city’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services.
Read MoreJail programming suffers a year after DOC cut nonprofit contract
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The city’s Department of Correction has continued to struggle to provide re-entry services, educational programs, life skills training and other programs to detainees on Rikers Island a year after the agency cut a contract with half a dozen nonprofits and opted to provide the programming themselves.
Read MoreCouncil calls on mayor to reverse cuts to recidivism-reducing programs
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The City Council on Monday demanded the city’s upcoming budget include nearly $60 million in efforts aimed at providing programming and other services to New Yorkers in an effort to reduce recidivism.
Read MoreMayor restores programming on Rikers months after cutting funding
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The Adams administration late Monday announced that it planned to mostly restore nonprofit-provided programming for detainees on Rikers Island after the city attempted – and largely failed – to provide the programming itself following a budget cut ordered by the mayor last year.
Read MoreNew correction commissioner promises to work better with oversight board
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Top 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 MoreWhat’s Louis Molina’s job? City Hall won’t say
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Former Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina was recently named assistant deputy mayor for public safety. But what that job entails, the mayor’s office won’t say.
Read MoreNo sprinklers or guards as detainees were trapped during Rikers fire, report says
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Detainees 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 More‘Unacceptable and contemptuous’: Judge finds DOC in contempt for Rikers arson unit debacle
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A federal judge found the Department of Correction in contempt of court on Thursday after it failed to communicate with the federal monitor about the opening of a secure housing unit in November.
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