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25 Aug 2015, 5:31 am
“Rikers Island inmates cost city big $$ with ‘frivolous’ lawsuits,” blared the New York Post(citing anonymous sources) in 2013. [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 5:50 am
As it was, less than 24 hours after getting off work, Tomlin was on a bus to Rikers Island, New York’s notorious jail complex, where his situation was about to get a lot worse. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 6:24 am
So you sweat it out in New York City’s hellhole of a jail on Rikers Island, waiting for a trial months, even years away. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 9:20 am
It also found that missteps by Corizon employees may have contributed to at least two recent inmate deaths [at Rikers Island Jail]. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 4:23 am
While attention nationally has been focused on creative solutions to pretrial detention at Rikers Island, a number of advocates I know have already been abuzz about this Texas news reported in the Houston Chronicle (June 28): "Earlier this month, Nathan Hecht, the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, announced the creation of a committee to study the issue for the Texas Judicial Council, the policy-making body for the state judiciary. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 3:00 pm
[Reuters] * An in-depth look at New York's Riker's Island facility from the perspective of those who live and work there. [read post]
19 Jun 2015, 5:06 am
State Senator Daniel Squadron and Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry announced legislation (S.5988) to fix New York State’s “speedy trial” law following the recent death of Kalief Browder, who spent three years in pre-trial detention at Riker’s Island. [read post]
12 Jun 2015, 11:48 am
(And no, I don’t think any of these guys will literally spend time in Rikers Island if convicted; they seem more likely destined for some minimum-security facility. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 5:55 am
[Idaho Statesman] * Kalief Browder, a man used as an example of our broken justice system, was sent to Riker's Island when he was 16 years old. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 5:38 am
Writes Jennifer Gonnerman, in a new New Yorker piece, an update on Browder, who has now killed himself.That afternoon, at about 12:15 P.M., he went into another bedroom, pulled out the air conditioner, and pushed himself out through the hole in the wall, feet first, with a cord wrapped around his neck. [read post]
12 May 2015, 6:01 am
This makes her op-ed easy to pick apart on many levels, as she glosses over the details of the existing system with shallow observations like this: Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York unveiled a plan to decrease the population of the Rikers Island jail complex by reducing the backlog of cases in state courts. [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 6:30 am
Miller found that a correction officer had engaged in undue familiarity with an inmate by failing to notify the Department that her husband had been arrested and incarcerated on Rikers Island, by taking telephone calls from him on her post phone and cell phone while on duty, and by disclosing Department business to him during the calls. [read post]
15 Mar 2015, 4:20 pm
Courtesy of the New York Daily NewsNYC Corrections Officer Gary Heyward worked Rikers Island for a number of years. [read post]
15 Mar 2015, 4:20 pm
Courtesy of the New York Daily NewsNYC Corrections Officer Gary Heyward worked Rikers Island for a number of years. [read post]
13 Mar 2015, 5:47 am
All of this is very difficult to do from Rikers Island. [read post]
12 Mar 2015, 8:58 am
Since you talk about it so much at parties and in bars, it's high time you read it. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 6:46 pm
Defendant is currently being held on Rikers Island waiting trial on the murder charge. [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 11:53 am
Inmates Rescue Guard At Rikers: Inmates at Rikers Island helped rescue a female guard who was nearly raped by a sex offender Saturday night. [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 4:34 am
Media reports of Rikers Island actually recruiting gang members with criminal records to be guards are deplorable. [read post]
22 Feb 2015, 11:32 am
New York’s Rikers Island is the second largest jail in the United States, housing between 11,000 and 12,500 inmates at a given time. [read post]
