Mayor Zohran Mamdani late Monday renewed a long-running state of emergency on Rikers Island, signing an executive order he acknowledged would prolong a controversial legal workaround used by his predecessor for years to skirt rules dictating how the city should treat detainees.
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 MoreThe sweeping powers of the yet-to-be-named receiver that will soon assume control over much of the city’s jail system were detailed in a recent ruling from a federal judge.
Read MoreAttorneys 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 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 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 More“With the mayoral elections coming up, it's important that we seek out representatives who will do right by their constituents and abolish Rikers once and for all. “
Read MoreA question over the city’s plan to close Rikers Island and build four new borough-based jails as its replacement sparked one of the most contentious moments of Wednesday’s mayoral debate, the last before early voting gets underway this weekend.
Read MoreNearly 30 people recently told a federal judge that they want to be put in charge of the troubled jail complex and be appointed “remediation manager,” according to a recent report from the judge’s federal monitor, Steve J. Martin.
Read MoreWith the city lagging years behind its legally-mandated 2027 deadline to shutter Rikers Island, the City Council on Wednesday passed a suite of bills that they say will at least help get the effort to close the notorious jail complex back on track.
Read MorePublic defense attorneys alleged on Tuesday that the Department of Correction consistently violates the rights of detainees by making it difficult for them to meet with their lawyers while being held on Rikers Island.
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 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 MoreA former Rikers Island guard was convicted of felony charges after prosecutors say he planted a weapon inside the cell of a detainee he had recently beat up.
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