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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]
29 Sep 2016, 4:15 pm
[Medium] * NYC settles over the death of an inmate at Rikers Island. [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 12:27 pm
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] released a report [press release] Monday finding that the New York City Department of Correction [official website] has routinely violated the constitutional rights of male teenagers at the Rikers Island jail complex. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 2:00 am
On July 10, 2019, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing for the City’s application for four borough-based jails as a part of the City’s plan to shut down Rikers Island. [read post]
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]
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]
18 Jan 2019, 2:00 am
Judge Lippman spoke on “The Closing of Rikers Island as a Catalyst for […] The post COMPLETE VIDEO: 158th CityLaw Breakfast with Hon. [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 9:17 pm
NPR Part 2 of 3 On the East River just across from Rikers Island sits a barge officially called the Vernon C. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 9:22 am
.), entered August 18, 2010, which, in an action to recover damages for defendants’ alleged failure to prevent the suicide of plaintiff’s decedent while an inmate at Rikers Island, granted defendants’ oral [...] [read post]
30 Apr 2011, 7:35 pm
According to Artnet Magazine and ArtDaily, Angel Ortiz, a graffiti artist who's works were featured this April at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, was unable to attend the exhibition opening because he was sent to Rikers Island Jail in New York for spray paining buildings in downtown Manhattan. [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]
26 Dec 2010, 2:22 pm
Taylor Center — one of nine jails on Rikers Island — completed a five-week literacy course this fall called "Daddy and Me. [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 1:07 pm
He was sent to Rikers Island jail to wait for trial. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 2:00 am
The City wastes little time in efforts to shutter Rikers Island and get construction across the boroughs started. [read post]
13 May 2024, 10:00 am
ABA Journal, BigLaw Associate Identified as Good Samaritan Fatally Shot at McDonald's ABA Journal, University Is ‘Incubator Of Bigotry,’ Say 13 Federal Judges Boycotting Its Grads ABA Journal, Viral Video Shows Former Rikers Island Inmate As She Learns She Passed Bar Exam On First Try Above the Law, Law Revue... [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 4:29 pm
The Rikers' Island Correction Officer has spent the last several days in the Westchester county Jail in Valhalla, NY, having been charged with conspiracy and assault in the alleged beating of an inmate in August of last year. [read post]
27 Feb 2010, 8:00 am
And in the third room, an idealistic young woman from the Midwest was trying to teach poetry at Rikers Island. [read post]
22 Feb 2015, 5:17 am
Rikers Island would no longer be the cesspool of violence it had been since, forever. [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]
