Queens’ borough-based jail set to be built in Kew Gardens will cost taxpayers at least $4 billion and may be completed four years after the city’s legally-mandated deadline to close Rikers Island, city records show.
Read MoreMissed medical appointments, alleged sexual harassment and abuse, dirty cells and frequent violence – detainees on Rikers Island have had a lot to complain about.
Read MoreYoung detainees on Rikers Island are being deprived of their right to take high school classes while behind bars, the Legal Aid Society alleged in a new filing in federal court this week.
Read MoreAttorneys for the city on Tuesday told a federal judge that Rikers Island should remain in the hands of the city as a new, reform-minded commissioner takes a stab at curbing violent conditions at the notorious jail complex.
Read MoreRepeating what top members of his administration have begun to suggest in recent weeks, Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that his administration has little to no shot of building four borough-based jails by the time Rikers Island is legally-mandated to shutter as a jail complex in 2027.
Read MoreA little more than half a year after the Department of Correction cut a contract with several nonprofit service providers, two of those organizations have been asked to again provide programming to detainees on Rikers Island – and to do it for free.
Read MoreSome 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 More“While we as citizens have the constitutional right to participate in our civic process on all levels, in New York State that opportunity is stripped from those people who are in jail waiting for their court dates.”
Read MoreThe city’s Department of Correction has significantly struggled to provide re-entry services, educational programs, life skills training and other programs to detainees after cutting ties last year with around a half dozen nonprofit service providers as a cost savings measure.
Read MoreThe federal monitor charged with keeping track of violent conditions on Rikers Island said that he and his team disapprove of the City Council’s ban on solitary confinement, which the legislative body passed with a veto-proof majority at the tail end of last year’s legislative session.
Read MoreWhile giving remarks at a graduation ceremony for Department of Correction officers on Friday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams bristled at recent attempts from the City Council and others to make reforms to the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island.
Read MoreA Brooklyn man says he was denied medical care on Rikers Island after he was knocked unconscious in a car crash caused by the driver of a Department of Correction bus taking him to court, a new lawsuit filed in Queens alleges.
Read MoreFormer 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 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.
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