Council blasts DOC for ignoring Rikers detainee complaints
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Missed medical appointments, alleged sexual harassment and abuse, dirty cells and frequent violence – detainees on Rikers Island have had a lot to complain about.
Read MoreDOC sued for alleged ‘mass surveillance’ practices
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The city’s Department of Correction unlawfully recorded all calls made and received by detainees in the city’s custody, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Read MoreOfficers, jail workers and detainee cuffed in Rikers smuggling scheme
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Three former correctional officers, a Rikers Island program counselor, a jails contractor and a detainee were all charged this week in federal court for scheming to smuggle drugs and other contraband into the city’s notorious jail complex.
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.
Read MoreMan in DOC custody dies in Bellevue jail ward
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A man being held in a Bellevue Hospital jail ward awaiting a new trial after winning an appeal of his 2018 murder conviction died over the weekend.
Read MoreCity claims Rikers receivership isn’t needed with new commissioner at helm
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Attorneys 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 MoreNonprofits given ax by DOC last year return to work on Rikers for free
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A 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 Rikers detainees haven’t gotten outdoor rec in over a year, oversight board finds
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Some 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 More‘Unnecessary, inappropriate and dangerous’: Use of pepper spray skyrocketed on Rikers Island, new report finds
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In 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 MoreMental illness and missed medical appointments: Board of Correction issues report on Rikers deaths during second half of last year
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Nearly all of the four men who died on Rikers Island in the second half of last year entered the troubled jail complex with mental health and addiction issues, and failed to receive regular medical care or adequate supervision from the Department of Correction, a new report from the Board of Correction found.
Read MoreDetainee programming on Rikers declined after DOC cut ties with nonprofit providers
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The 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 MoreMayor vetoes pair of criminal justice reform bills
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Mayor Eric Adams on Friday vetoed a pair of recently passed City Council bills, setting up an imminent showdown with the legislature that the mayor is likely to lose.
Read MoreMayor grumbles about Rikers reforms at correction officer graduation
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While 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 MoreRikers detainee denied medical care after DOC driver crashed jail bus, suit alleges
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A 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 MoreWhat’s Louis Molina’s job? City Hall won’t say
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Former 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.
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