Rikers detainee dies of alleged medical emergency
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A man being held on Rikers Island died on Tuesday in a Queens hospital after suffering an apparent medical emergency.
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‘Insult on top of injury’: Attys claim DOC falsified records about Rikers detainee’s death
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A new filing in a wrongful death lawsuit claims that the city’s Department of Correction falsely claimed in records that they acted quickly to provide Narcan to a 26-year-old dying of an overdose on Rikers Island in 2022 when instead it was the man’s brother, coincidently being held in the cell next door, who attempted to revive his sibling just before he died.
Read MoreMayor suspends solitary confinement ban
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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again. That’s the platitude Mayor Eric Adams has appeared to employ in his attempts to skirt around a new law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails.
Read MoreCouncil prepares take Adams admin to court over solitary ban
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The 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 MoreWith Rikers in crisis, power struggle within jail watchdog board overshadows oversight efforts
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The Board of Correction on Tuesday spent around an hour of its meeting engaged in an internal power struggle instead of discussing the top item on its agenda – the crisis regarding the city’s stalled plan to close Rikers Island by 2027.
Read MoreJustice delayed: Lengthy stays on Rikers jump as cases slow in courts
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The number of detainees who have had to wait three years or longer on Rikers Island while their cases sluggishly make their way through the court system has increased by nearly 180 percent in the last half decade, according to a new report.
Read MoreRikers receivership case sluggishly moves forward
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For the first time in nearly seven months, the city’s Department of Correction on Tuesday appeared before the federal judge currently considering whether or not the city should be stripped of its control of Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex that has seen over two dozen deaths in the past two years.
Read MoreFamily seeks answers about son’s death on Rikers
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The family of a Bayside man who died on Rikers Island last year is suing the city’s Department of Correction after the agency allegedly wrongly withheld information about the man’s death.
Read MoreCan the Department of Correction's new commissioner fix Rikers Island?
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Department of Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie says she can reform the jails on Rikers Island, but decades of dysfunction suggests otherwise.
Read MoreFamily of man who died after Rikers Island detention sues city for $100 million
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The family of a 31-year-old man whose death in Department of Correction custody remains disputed over a year after it happened recently filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city.
Read MoreCity asks judge to halt solitary ban
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The Adams administration said this week that it plans to mount a legal challenge to a law banning solitary confinement in New York City’s jails, around two months before it is supposed to go into effect.
Read MoreFormer Corrections boss to lead Deptartment of Citywide Administrative Services
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Former Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina has been tapped by Mayor Eric Adams to lead the city’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services.
Read More‘Dysfunction remains the reality’: Legal Aid makes final arguments for federal takeover of Rikers
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Despite the city’s instance that if given more time it can turn around its troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, the Legal Aid Society said in a Thursday court filing that enough was enough, and reiterated its call for a federal judge to strip control of the jail from the city and hand it over to a court-appointed authority.
Read More‘A little perplexed’: Questions raised over city’s $4 billion contract for construction of Queens jail
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Advocates and a lawmaker on Thursday spoke out against the city’s proposed $4 billion contract for the building of Queens’ borough-based jail, which may be completed four years after the city’s legally-mandated deadline to close Rikers Island.
Read MoreCity fails to offer school to young detainees on Rikers, LAS says
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Young 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.
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