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22 Feb 2015, 5:17 am
Rikers Island would no longer be the cesspool of violence it had been since, forever. [read post]
14 Feb 2015, 4:52 am
For decades, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has used its office trailer on Rikers Island, one of the world’s largest jails, as a base for funneling... [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 3:34 am
In December the New York Times investigated the head of the guards’ union in New York City, Norman Seabrook, seen as “the biggest obstacle to efforts to curb brutality and malfeasance” at the city’s notorious Rikers Island, and noted that most elected officials are reluctant to be quoted discussing him by name, sometimes due to “fears about their safety while visiting Rikers” if they get on his wrong side. [read post]
1 Feb 2015, 1:31 pm
No problem, the City will pay the tab.To face any real negative consequence, the officer would have to be criminally charged and convicted, and we know how unlikely that is.Parenthetically, just to make a point, a couple of years I had a civil case following an arrest of my client where he spent several days at Rikers Island. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 8:31 am
[JURIST] New York City officials announced [press release] Tuesday that they have agreed on a plan that will eliminate the use of solitary confinement for inmates 21 or younger at Rikers Island prison [official website]. [read post]
30 Dec 2014, 6:17 pm
(See here and here).Rikers Island is a bit of a jurisdictional enigma. [read post]
21 Dec 2014, 7:53 am
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer is again showing a willingness to insert himself into NYC civil rights litigation.Earlier this year, Stringer stepped in and settled the claims of David Ranta, who had spent 23 years in prison after being framed by a NYPD detective, and Jerome Murdough, who died needlessly at Rikers Island, before any lawsuit had actually been filed. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 9:27 am
Federal prosecutors sued [case materials] New York City on Thursday over violent conditions at Rikers Island prison [official website]. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 5:36 am
Who cares about another warm body in the bowels of Rikers Island? [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 9:05 am
Turning to the terrifying world of U.S. prisons, specifically New York’s Rikers Island, we have one very angry U.S. [read post]
18 Sep 2014, 12:54 am
According to a recent story from WTOP news, an inmate at Rikers Island New York City jail died from excessive heat while in his cell. [read post]
31 Aug 2014, 12:43 pm
LEXIS 119706 (SD NY, Aug. 4, 2014), a New York federal district court allowed Muslim inmates held at Rikers Island to move ahead with their complaint that they were not provided adequate or appropriate worship space, but dismissed their complaint that they were not furnished an adequate supply of religious materials. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 5:26 am
At any given time there is approximately one correction officer for every 50 inmates on Rikers Island. [read post]
19 Aug 2014, 2:05 pm
A teenager who waited in jail for three years pending trial died in solitary confinement at Rikers Island when his heart exploded. [read post]
10 Aug 2014, 4:16 am
Rikers Island isn’t a prison, but a jail. [read post]
6 Aug 2014, 11:02 am
No legal action has commenced [Reuters report]… +read more Related articles DOJ: New York jail routinely violates rights of adolescent inmates (jurist.org) DOJ: NYC jail routinely violates rights of teen inmates (prisonreformmovement.wordpress.com) Rikers Island Violence Violates Constitutional Rights of Younger Inmates, says DOJ (blogs.villagevoice.com) Report reveals ‘culture of violence’ against teens at Rikers Island… [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 12:27 pm
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] released a report [press release] Monday finding that the New York City Department of Correction [official website] has routinely violated the constitutional rights of male teenagers at the Rikers Island jail complex. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 6:22 pm
As discussed here in a July 9 post, New York City's Department of Investigation has been engaged in an intensive and detailed probe into misconduct inside the City's largest jail complex, Rikers Island. [read post]
14 Jul 2014, 6:33 pm
The New York Times today published a lengthy, in-depth report on the seemingly growing incidents of violent assaults by guards on inmates at Rikers Island. [read post]
14 Jul 2014, 4:50 am
’ ”And the NY Times reports that a popular sport at Rikers Island - the second largest jail in the US- is beating up mentally ill inmates. [read post]
