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25 Feb 2016, 4:49 am by SHG
Rikers Island isn’t “toxic. [read post]
13 Oct 2013, 6:16 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 144122 (SD NY, Sept. 26, 2013), eight Rikers Island inmates sued alleging that unlike other religions, Muslims were not given dedicated prayer space, religious materials or adequate Halal meals. [read post]
24 Feb 2023, 11:47 am by John Hochfelder
On December 8, 2001, Miguel Nesbitt was sent to a jail on Rikers Island in New York City to await trial on several felony charges. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 12:50 pm
According to a story published Wednesday in the New York Times, Lloyd Nicholson, a 35 year-old guard at Riker's Island, was arrested and has been charged with gang assault, assault, and official misconduct by the Bronx district attorney's office. [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 12:17 am
Rikers Island holds a number of detention facilities, affectionately aggregated under the name of "The Rock. [read post]
24 Nov 2007, 10:00 pm
Tops in Los Angeles county jail, followed by New York's Rikers Island. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 4:45 pm
If alleged "Mommy Pimp," Anna Gristina, is sitting on Rikers Island unable to make $2 million bail in a one count indictment without a threat of a mandatory prison sentence, one can only assume that Long Island attorney, Robert J. [read post]
22 Feb 2015, 5:17 am by SHG
For those who, mistakenly but understandably, assume that these are all hardened criminals in need of “firm measures” to keep the in line, Rikers Island is a jail, not a prison. [read post]
16 Sep 2016, 4:15 pm by Kathryn Rubino
[Tax Prof Blog] * Prison reforms may actually be coming to Rikers Island. [read post]
19 Oct 2018, 6:39 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
This inmate brought a Section 1983 claim against Rikers Island over unconstitutional conditions and treatment. [read post]
21 Feb 2022, 8:36 am by John Hochfelder
Wallace received a sum of money after bringing a lawsuit alleging that he was assaulted by corrections officers at the jail on Rikers Island. [read post]
3 May 2014, 2:37 am by Walter Olson
Correctional Officers Bill of Rights (COBR) of 2011, developing out of AFSCME efforts to defend prison guards in western Maryland, and role it played in Baltimore jail scandal. [read post]
17 May 2011, 7:33 am by Ashby Jones
Monday afternoon, Strauss-Kahn was moved to the prison on New York City’s Rikers Island. [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]
19 Apr 2011, 8:41 pm by Site Administrator
Once admitted to Rikers Island, he was placed in a high-class area to keep him separated from the rest of the prisoners. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 2:50 am
LEXIS 33499 (SDNY, Feb. 19, 2008), is one of over a dozen suits filed by Muslim inmates challenging the handling of food and related items at Rikers Island prison facility, and the failure to identify non-Halal food at the prison commissary. [read post]
20 Jan 2008, 5:22 am
LEXIS 3136 (SD NY, Jan. 10, 2008), a New York federal magistrate judge recommended that a Muslim inmate be allowed to proceed with most of his claims that meals served and prison commissary items furnished to him at Rikers Island prison facilities violated his religious dietary requirements that limited him to Halal food.In Best-Bey v. [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
The death toll at New York’s Rikers Island jail keeps climbing with no end in sight, while Stafford Creek prison in Washington undergoes not only a COVID outbreak but a tuberculosis one too. [read post]
2 May 2016, 8:30 am by Roy Black
Renee Hill represents one of nine current or former Rikers Island prison guards charged with viciously beating an inmate. [read post]