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27 Apr 2024, 4:41 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
Aidala said he was told that Bellevue doctors planned to run a lot of tests on Weinstein before he can be returned to the Rikers Island jail complex. [read post]
27 Apr 2024, 12:28 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
” Aidala said he was told that Bellevue doctors planned to run a lot of tests on Weinstein before he can be returned to the Rikers Island jail complex. [read post]
27 Apr 2024, 11:56 am by Yosi Yahoudai
” Aidala said he was told that Bellevue doctors planned to run a lot of tests on Weinstein before he can be returned to the Rikers Island jail complex. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Woman Sentenced to Month in Prison Over Theft of Ashley Biden’s Diary DNyuz – Adam Goldman (New York Times) | Published: 4/9/2024 A federal judge sentenced Aimee Harris to a month in prison for her role in a brazen scheme to steal the diary of President Biden’s daughter and sell it to a right-wing group in the hope of disrupting the 2020 election. [read post]
5 Mar 2024, 5:01 am by Beatrice Yahia
 Qatari and Egyptian mediators told Israeli negotiators during talks last week that Hamas is willing to decrease the number of Palestinian prisoners released as part of a hostage deal if Israel agrees to allow more Palestinian civilians to return to northern Gaza, an Israeli official and a source with knowledge of the issue told Axios. [read post]
29 Dec 2023, 2:00 am by Jeremy Saland
Penal Law 265.01(1): Fourth Degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon A Class “A” misdemeanor allowing for as long as one year in jail, aka, Rikers Island, this offense sets forth certain items or objects that are by default considered weapons no matter how they are used (or not used). [read post]
18 Dec 2023, 12:39 pm by Matthew J. Galluzzo
Majors for as much as one year in jail, which he would have to serve at the notorious prison on Rikers Island. [read post]
2 Oct 2023, 9:00 am by Barry Scheck
In 2022, 17 people died in custody at Rikers Island or shortly after being released. [read post]
2 Sep 2023, 8:41 am by John Floyd
”   The three largest jail systems in the U.S. are: the Los Angeles County Jail, with nearly 20,000 detainees/inmates on a daily basis (the largest jail system in the world); New York City’s Rikers Island, with nearly 15,000 detainees/inmates; and the Harris County Jail with more than 10,000 detainees/inmates. [read post]
5 Aug 2023, 6:51 am by Jeremy Saland
In New York City, that jail where you would serve your punishment, even if unlikely that you would spend a day there, is the infamous Rikers Island. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 3:39 am by SHG
Rikers Island is, in fact, an island in The Bronx that was dedicated to the cause of holding the city’s pretrial detainees and prisoners serving sentences of less than one year. [read post]
1 Jun 2023, 10:26 am by Justin Chan
For example, when faced with the prospect of a stint in New York City’s notoriously violent jail Rikers Island, Jason Serrano pleaded guilty despite being innocent. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 4:50 pm by Jeremy Saland
If the Grand Jury disagrees, they could vote a true bill solely as to Second Degree Falsifying Business Records, a class “A” misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail (yes, Rikers Island in NYC), or no indictment at all. [read post]
24 Feb 2023, 11:47 am by John Hochfelder
On December 8, 2001, Miguel Nesbitt was sent to a jail on Rikers Island in New York City to await trial on several felony charges. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 5:47 pm by zola.support.team
The Raise the Age law directed the city to transition the 16- and 17- year olds being held in the Rikers Island prison facility and other city facilities to Horizon Juvenile Center in Mott Haven and Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brooklyn, both managed by city Administration for Children’s Services. [read post]
25 Dec 2022, 10:03 am by Jeremy Saland
A class “A” misdemeanor, this offense carries a potential sentence of one year in a county jail (Rikers Island, Westchester County Jail, etc.) [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Some of those people might have died anyway, but surely the hopelessness engendered by Rikers Island and other facilities played a role in some of the deaths, which include suicides. [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
The death toll at New York’s Rikers Island jail keeps climbing with no end in sight, while Stafford Creek prison in Washington undergoes not only a COVID outbreak but a tuberculosis one too. [read post]
7 Sep 2022, 7:57 am by Jeremy Saland
A class “E” felony, Fourth Degree Conspiracy is punishable by up to one and one third to four years in prison with no mandatory minimum while Fifth Degree Conspiracy is punishable by up to one year in jail – Rikers Island in New York City – without a mandated minimum. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 6:39 am by Andrew Weissmann
And while a 5-month prison term even in Rikers Island is entirely unfair when compared to sentences handed out to non-economic crimes and non-white collar criminals, that inequity is pervasive in the courts, both state and federal, in sentencing rich, white executives (I personally saw it at play repeatedly in the Enron prosecutions). [read post]