Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso announced his bid to succeed retiring Representative Nydia Velázquez in Congress on Thursday, making him the first major candidate to throw their hat in the ring to represent the Queens and Brooklyn district.
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 MoreRepresentative Nydia Velázquez announced Thursday night she will retire next year, opening up a new primary for a congressional seat in Queens and Brooklyn.
Read MoreThe City Council on Tuesday celebrated its victory over the Adams administration, successfully suing to prevent a mayoral executive order allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Rikers Island from taking effect.
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 MoreFor the first time in months, the number of New Yorkers being processed into the state’s prisons is higher than the number being declared “state ready” in local jails throughout the state, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision officials say.
Read MoreTwo days after a city-appointed commission unveiled a new plan to close Rikers Island, Mayor Eric Adams began to chart his own path regarding the dangerous jail complex’s future.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams pitched a vague plan to turn one of the city’s proposed – and extremely delayed – borough-based jail facilities into a mental health treatment jail, confusing advocates and lawmakers who say the mayor has thus far resisted calls to support treatment facilities and programs for detainees.
Read MoreAround a year after hundreds of lawsuits were filed against the Department of Correction by New Yorkers who said they were sexually abused while incarcerated on Rikers Island, top officials in the DOC attempted to convince fuming lawmakers on Thursday that they were taking the allegations seriously.
Read MoreDetainees with mental health issues are sometimes locked inside cells for weeks or months at a time without access to their needed medication and left to deteriorate, a former social worker on Rikers Island told the jails’ watchdog board on Tuesday.
Read MoreA 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 MoreAs the three-year countdown to the closure of the jails on Rikers Island begins this week, major questions remain about whether or not the city will – or even can – meet the August 2027 deadline to shutter the notorious complex.
Read MoreThe fight over a law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails continued on Thursday when the City Council opened the door to taking legal action against the Adams administration, which asked a judge last month to allow them to skirt the law’s implementation.
Read MoreDepartment of Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie says she can reform the jails on Rikers Island, but decades of dysfunction suggests otherwise.
Read MoreThe 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.
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