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23 Mar 2008, 3:40 am
The lawsuits complain that meals served at Rikers Island prison did not meet the requirements for Halal food and that non-Halal items were not identified at the prison commissary. [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 4:33 am
Bain Center (VCBC), moored nearby Rikers Island (an island jail) is still used today. [read post]
19 May 2011, 5:50 am
Strauss-Khan was denied bond by the New York City Criminal Court on Monday and is currently in custody at Riker's Island Prison. [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]
5 Jun 2019, 5:09 am
[Salon] * Meanwhile, Paul Manafort, one of President Trump’s former henchmen, will likely be transferred to Rikers Island where he’ll be held in solitary confinement while he faces state fraud charges in New York. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 8:14 am
Rikers Island houses over 800 juveniles and an alarming one-third of Rikers inmates suffer from mental illness. [read post]
25 May 2011, 5:49 pm
This "A" misdemeanor is punishable by up to one year jail on Rikers Island. [read post]
22 Mar 2020, 5:54 pm
Rapist Harvey Weinstein has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus.Weinstein, who turned 68 last Thursday, is being isolated at Wende Correctional Facility in Western New York.Weinstein is said to have told prison staff he believed he has the virus when he entered the state prison system last Wednesday from notorious Rikers Island where a number of inmates have the virus. [read post]
22 Mar 2020, 5:54 pm
Rapist Harvey Weinstein has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus.Weinstein, who turned 68 last Thursday, is being isolated at Wende Correctional Facility in Western New York.Weinstein is said to have told prison staff he believed he has the virus when he entered the state prison system last Wednesday from notorious Rikers Island where a number of inmates have the virus. [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]
6 Aug 2020, 8:34 am
In early April, the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City suffered its first coronavirus death: Michael Tyson. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 9:22 pm
A New York Criminal Lawyer said he had been charged with three counts of this crime for viciously assaulting three correction officers with a sharpened toothbrush while being housed at the Rikers Island Correction Facility. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 2:03 pm
[Arrest Records] * Judge lambasts the Bronx DA’s office after an ADA failed to reveal evidence that would have freed a man held at Rikers Island on bogus rape charges. [read post]
27 Apr 2024, 12:28 pm
” Aidala said he was told that Bellevue doctors planned to run a lot of tests on Weinstein before he can be returned to the Rikers Island jail complex. [read post]
11 May 2012, 7:40 am
" If you think that last, Dantean flourish is overstated, I highly recommend two recent articles on prisons. [read post]
11 May 2012, 7:36 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. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 7:58 am
”Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported (Jan. 5) that:The New York City Department of Correction has stopped its controversial use of solitary confinement for mentally ill inmates who break the rules, a shift that jail officials are hailing as groundbreaking.The last of the prisoners being held in the Mental Health Assessment Unit for Infracted Inmates at Rikers Island jail were reassigned Dec. 31, and what is known as the punitive segregation program has… [read post]
18 Aug 2013, 11:43 am
LEXIS 113741, July 16, 2013), and dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies an inmate's complaints that the handling of food at Rikers Island facility led to meals that failed to comply with Halal requirements.In Garnica v. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 8:50 am
The teen spent the next three years jailed on Rikers Island. [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]
