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19 Oct 2019, 1:23 pm
“Nothing symbolizes those failed policies in this city more than Rikers Island. [read post]
18 Oct 2019, 4:12 am
Standing on Rikers Island, that kind of math hurts. [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 4:27 am
When Rikers Island ran out of room, they put people on a barge brought in to take the overflow. [read post]
10 Oct 2019, 2:07 am
He was taken to the local emergency room for minor treatment before he was booked at the police station and taken to the prison at Rikers Island. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 2:20 pm
Time: The Kalief Browder Story Teenager Kalief Browder spent three years in New York’s infamous Rikers Island jail awaiting a trial for his alleged crime of stealing a backpack. [read post]
11 Sep 2019, 2:00 am
On September 5, 2019, City Council’s Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting and Maritime Uses held a public hearing regarding the City’s application to close Rikers Island and create a Borough Based Jail System. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 6:37 pm
An unrepentant thief who, even when beginning her four-years-fixed, 8 years indeterminate prison sentence at Rikers Island, stated she would do it all again.You have to give this lady credit. [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]
24 Jun 2019, 5:15 am
Except Manafort could also be transferred to the Tombs, which is a jail attached to the criminal court building, or any of the other jails in New York City that aren’t Rikers Island, except Rikers Island is the jail that’s most notorious, vilified, and easily recognized as an object of hatred and derision. [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 1:00 am
On this episode of Stay Tuned, "Jailing Manafort & the Iran Standoff," host Preet Bharara answers your questions about: -- Kellyanne Conway -- The consequences of violating the Hatch Act -- Paul Manafort’s scuttled transfer to Rikers Island jail. [read post]
18 Jun 2019, 11:11 am
He was expected to be transferred to Rikers Island, but concerns about his “health and personal safety” led Justice Department officials to keep him in federal custody, the Washington Post reports. [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]
4 Jun 2019, 12:29 pm
Paul Manafort will likely be transferred to Rikers Island jail complex in New York City until his arraignment in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on state fraud charges later this month, the Times reports. [read post]
4 Jun 2019, 11:41 am
Korey was 16 when he was wrongfully arrested and sent away to Rikers Island while the others were placed in juvenile detention centers. [read post]
20 May 2019, 1:06 pm
BY JB NICHOLAS *** New York City’s plan to close Rikers Island has hit a snag: New York State’s parole system, which sends more people back to prison for petty parole violations than nearly every other state in the country.The plan to close the infamous jail hinges on reducing its population to under 5,000 people, a number that could fit into four new jails to be built near courthouses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. [read post]
6 May 2019, 1:02 pm
The men say they were transferred from Rikers Island to the Albany County Jail for infractions ranging from the petty to the near-deadly. *** Read more… [read post]
24 Apr 2019, 2:00 am
The four jails are set to replace Rikers island by 2027. [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 2:00 am
Former New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, speaking at a CityLaw Breakfast on January 23, 2019, powerfully argued that the time has come to close Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious jail located on an island in the East River. [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]
28 Feb 2019, 8:20 am
The Facts of the Case According to the court’s opinion, the defendant was facing charges of burglary and robbery, and was held at Rikers Island for eight months until his family was able to post bail. [read post]
