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27 Apr 2020, 4:42 am
Putting aside the separate issue of whether Rikers inmates would rather volunteer for the Hart Island detail, be outdoors engaged in activity, or sit in jail, what other options are logistically feasible? [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]
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]
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]
1 Jun 2023, 10:26 am
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]
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]
1 Oct 2014, 5:36 am
Who cares about another warm body in the bowels of Rikers Island? [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 1:45 pm
In New York City, there is a growing and serious possibility that oversight of the Rikers Island jail complex will be taken over by a federal receiver. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 10:21 am
The defendant, standing trial in a shooting case, had a violent record while in custody at Riker's Island, requiring the court take additional security precautions during trial. [read post]
3 Apr 2023, 4:11 am
The judge knows that despite the new bail guidelines, he will be sending most of them to Riker’s Island. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 2:52 pm
A final parole withdrawal hearing was conducted at Rikers Island on June 18, 2009. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 11:26 am
A series of encounters with law enforcement as a juvenile — including for stealing a purse, marijuana possession after a stop-and-frisk, and theft of a cell-phone — landed him in Rikers Island just after his 18th birthday, where he spent nearly ten months in solitary confinement. [read post]
16 Oct 2012, 11:29 am
In August, New York City announced that Goldman Sachs is investing nearly $10 million in social impact bonds in a jail program at Rikers Island to reduce recidivism rates. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 5:15 am
LEXIS 25001 (SD NY, March 5, 2008), is another opinion in a series of cases brought by Muslim prisoner's at Rikers Island challenging the way in which prison personnel prepare and handle Halal meals as well as the manner of sale of food in the prison's commissary. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 6:39 pm
As I noted on FoxBusiness.Com, Weinstein was remanded – likely in the “tombs” or on Rikers Island – pending sentence. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 11:02 am
If you are ultimately sentenced to a week, month or year in jail, Rikers Island will be your home during that time if your arrest stemmed from a New York City incident in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 8:35 pm
For Amos, those 90 days would be spent on the island known as "Rikers" where he could be assigned to cleaning latrines. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 1:04 am
An “A” misdemeanor, a conviction for PL 165.05(1) is punishable by one year in a county jail such as the infamous Rikers Island. [read post]
19 Jun 2012, 2:16 pm
Using the examples above, if that conviction occurred in Manhattan or anywhere in New York City, the time served would be on the infamous Rikers Island. [read post]
11 May 2012, 7:40 am
Graham Rayman reports on institutionalized violence on Rikers Island in New York: Under a practice known as "the Program," guards were deputizing inmates, often in the teen jail, and pitting them against one another in fights as a way to keep order and extort them for phone, food, and television privileges.These revelations are among many that vindicate Mike Konczal's important essay "Against Law, For Order. [read post]
