Mayor Eric Adams doubled down on his opposition to the plan to close Rikers Island on Tuesday and called on the City Council to craft a new proposal to close the city’s jail complex where over two dozen people have died since the mayor took office last year.
Read MoreThe Adams administration has yet to complete a single transfer of land on Rikers Island, a crucial part of the city’s plan to turn the jail complex into a renewable energy hub by 2027.
Read MoreFor the eighth time this year, a person being held in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction has died.
Read MoreQueens City Councilmember Robert Holden this week said Rikers Island had a “great atmosphere” after taking a tour of the jail complex where over two dozen people have died in the last two years.
Read MoreBrooklyn’s borough-based jail facility, one of four facilities expected to replace Rikers Island before the end of the decade, will be larger than originally anticipated, the city revealed this week.
Read MoreRikers Island’s population is growing larger when it should be getting smaller. DOC Commissioner Louis Molina said the blame lies with the state court system during a Board of Correction meeting this week.
Read MoreA federal judge ruled this week that the city must pay nearly $143 million to over 40,000 people who were held in a city jail longer than they should have after having posted bail.
Read MoreA new report from a court-appointed monitor found that conditions inside New York City’s jails were generally in a state of deterioration during the first four months of the year.
Read MoreWith a little more than a week before the Department of Correction plans to sever its contracts with nearly half a dozen nonprofits that provide services to detainees on Rikers Island, elected officials, formerly incarcerated New Yorkers and top officials with the affected organizations called on the city to find new ways to save $17 million dollars.
Read MoreA federal judge said Tuesday that her confidence in the Department of Correction’s ability and commitment to reform troubled Rikers Island has been “shaken” and that she’s open to hearing arguments about why the jail should be handed over to a federal receiver.
Read MoreTwo top city officials took a trip to Rikers Island on Wednesday following a troubling month in the jail complex. And while they said conditions there were far less chaotic than they have been in recent years, they still feel a judge should strip control of Rikers Island away from the city.
Read MoreA 31-year-old man died following a disputed incident on Rikers Island this week. Department of Correction’s officials say he suffered a heart attack, but an autopsy shows he died of an apparent skull fracture. The DOC has denied any wrongdoing.
Read MoreWhile Department of Correction officials say that their ability to get detainees to their court appearances has markedly improved over the past year, others say the corrections agency isn’t being forthcoming about its practices.
Read MoreHours before the holiday weekend, the federal monitor overseeing Rikers Island filed a “special report” alleging that Department of Correction brass wasn’t forthcoming about nearly half a dozen recent fatal or near-fatal incidents in the city’s jails.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams said that he would not take Rikers Island off the table as a potential place to house newly arrived migrants.
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