Attorneys and families of people incarcerated on Rikers Island blasted the Department of Correction on Wednesday for what they described as a cruel, degrading and potentially unconstitutional process for visiting people locked in the dangerous jail complex.
Read MoreThe union representing Rikers Island’s correction officers is suing the city for reinstating forced 12-hour shifts, arguing officials illegally used an emergency order to revive the longer tours.
Read MoreA 32-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Sunday morning, becoming the 14th person to die in the Department of Correction’s custody this year.
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 notorious floating jail complex off Rikers Island known as “The Boat” is being moved south to be turned into scrap metal.
Read MoreA federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to the Adams administration’s efforts to retain control of Rikers Island, denying a motion that sought to undo her decision to put the troubled jail complex under federal receivership.
Read MoreThe rash of deaths on Rikers Island continued on Wednesday, when a man died after experiencing an apparent medical crisis in the jail complex that has claimed the lives of three people over the last two weeks.
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 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.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreTwo inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.
Read MoreAs 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 MoreAs a federal judge continues to consider taking Rikers Island out of the city’s control, a jail expert hired by the city says that current Department of Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie should remain in charge of the violent jail complex.
Read MoreThe Adams administration said late Tuesday that they will soon allow federal immigration agents onto Rikers Island, a move critics say could violate New York City’s sanctuary city laws.
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