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4 Dec 2008, 6:44 am
Originally intending to return to criminal law, he was offered a teaching position on Rikers Island, where he developed relationships the nature of which he had been unable to do as either police officer or attorney. [read post]
6 Apr 2022, 3:48 am
(That law is known as Kalief’s law, named for Kalief Browder, a teenager who committed suicide after being held on Rikers Island for three years without a trial.) [read post]
12 Nov 2011, 2:36 am
Forget the arrogance of this jerk, which can be easily fixed during the 8 months he'll spend on Riker's Island, because he's too busy and important to speak to the person into whose hands he's about to put his life. [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]
26 May 2020, 3:40 am
He gets sent to Rikers Island, where he sits for any number of days, months, or years. [read post]
14 Apr 2022, 4:40 am
Tracy McCarter was arrested and incarcerated on Rikers Island for six months with no bail, as COVID-19 quickly spread and killed multiple people. [read post]
25 Nov 2017, 6:52 am
Most are forced to default to a third option: Unable to put up the cash, the defendant is left to spend weeks and months—in some cases, even years—at the widely condemned jail complex on Rikers Island. [read post]
30 May 2018, 3:09 am
A Queens man spent nearly five months at Rikers Island — from November 2014 to April 2015 — without knowing his bail was just $2, according to records and his lawyers. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 2:10 pm
The recent nationwide protests against police brutality and racial bias have prompted calls for investigations into the deaths of two Black transgender people — Tony McDade, who was shot and killed by police in Florida in May, and Layleen Polanco, who died in isolation last year at Rikers Island where she was being held on a $500 bail she could not afford to pay. [read post]
14 Jan 2016, 2:21 am
Potentially punishable by up to a year in jail (Rikers Island in NYC), an arrest for PL 220.03 can be challenged on numerous grounds depending on the facts and evidence of your case. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 4:57 am
Otherwise, they are transferred to a Department of Correction facility, and once there, friends or family must travel to either Rikers Island or detention centers in the Bronx, Brooklyn or Manhattan to post bail. [read post]
14 Aug 2021, 4:07 am
Mere days ago, 25-year-old Brandon Rodriguez was found dead on Rikers Island, where he was held in lieu of bail for a misdemeanor. [read post]
2 Sep 2023, 8:41 am
” 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]
19 May 2016, 1:35 am
Even if such a sentence does not happen, I am confident that there are few people who would enjoy spending a day, month or year on Rikers Island or a local jail. [read post]
4 Oct 2023, 9:00 am
After witnessing conditions at a jailhouse nursery in New York’s notorious Rikers Island, she was determined to become a public defender. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
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]
17 May 2011, 10:35 am
Moreover, thanks to Roman Polanski, DSK will have to spend at least some time at Riker's Island. [read post]
3 Nov 2007, 6:00 am
Serra, became a warden at Rikers Island even after he was accused of coercing officers to work on Republican campaigns. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 12:40 pm
Facilities including Rikers Island jail in New York, Oakdale federal prison in Louisiana, and many others have already seen deadly outbreaks. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 7:13 am
In one case involving the Rikers Island Jail, a court released 18 people at once, some of whom were alleged to have violated parole and were incarcerated pursuant to an underlying conviction. [read post]
