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14 Sep 2016, 2:00 am
Recently the City got some good news about Rikers Island, a change from the bad news of recent years. [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 11:25 pm
LEXIS 68104 (SDNY, Sept. 7, 2007), involves claims regarding the availability of Halal food for prisoners at New York's Rikers Island correctional facility. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 7:23 pm
Rikers Island has ten jails on 400 acres and 12,000 inmates. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 3:39 am
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]
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]
26 Feb 2011, 10:28 pm
Inmates at Rikers Island are learning a new way to cope with the stringent isolation from not only the world but their families they left at home: reading books. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 7:20 am
Rikers Island isn’t alone in its invisibility. [read post]
10 Aug 2014, 4:16 am
Rikers Island isn’t a prison, but a jail. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 1:00 am
Steve Martin, a leading prison reform advocate who served as the court-appointed monitor of the Rikers Island prison in N.Y. joins Preet for a conversation about life in prison and prospects for change. [read post]
19 May 2011, 1:03 pm
He is scheduled to be released from Rikers Island on Friday, after the bail is posted. [read post]
17 Feb 2018, 4:57 am
Rikers Island isn’t “toxic. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 5:15 am
Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman who is serving a federal prison sentence, had been expected to be transferred to the notorious Rikers Island jail complex this month to await trial on a separate state case. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 10:18 am
It was announced on Tuesday, September 27, that New York City has settled with the family of a mentally ill Rikers Island inmate who died in custody for $5.75 million. [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]
1 Apr 2017, 3:33 am
Suddenly, he was on the side of closing the massive prison complex on Rikers Island after having spent years fighting activists demanding its closure. [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]
23 Jan 2009, 2:57 pm
Prisoners run the prisons. [read post]
31 Mar 2020, 7:31 am
New York City is home to it’s own archipelago of three federal jails, three borough jails, eight functioning jails on Rikers Island, two locked prison wards, and lockup facilities in each of seven state and federal criminal courthouses in the five boroughs. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 2:58 pm
Kross Center at Rikers Island. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 6:59 am
Prisoners are allowed to de-robe to their underwear, but everyone is required by the warden to wear pink undergarments. 3) Rikers Island Prison – Rikers Island, New York Rikers is notorious for prisoner violence, with many inmates claiming it to be much worse than the most hazardous New York streets. [read post]
