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24 Aug 2022, 9:40 pm
It happens in correctional facilities across the country and even right here in Rikers Island. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 8:57 am
Rikers Island was spared, but we learned something disturbing: the Department of Corrections does not have a large scale evacuation plan in place for the 12,000-plus prisoners of Rikers. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 3:34 am
It isn’t just in California (here, here, here, here, here, here) that the political power of guard unions makes prisons hard to reform. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 7:34 pm
Today, the first case of COVID-19 was reported among a Rikers Island detainee. [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]
18 Dec 2014, 9:27 am
Federal prosecutors sued [case materials] New York City on Thursday over violent conditions at Rikers Island prison [official website]. [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]
30 Jul 2020, 1:39 pm
” “Operation Green Fury,” named after the gang’s colors, details a total of 14 violent acts by Trinitario gang members incarcerated in Rikers Island Prison between Sept 2015 and July 2019. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 1:18 pm
It is said that many of the top prison officials helped create the so-called "man's world" at Riker's Island. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 1:18 pm
It is said that many of the top prison officials helped create the so-called "man's world" at Riker's Island. [read post]
9 Nov 2017, 7:56 am
Rikers Island is no stranger to controversy. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 3:00 am
” Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein is one of the prisoners on Rikers Island who tested positive for the virus. [read post]
3 Feb 2013, 9:00 pm
Rikers Island inmates are soaking city taxpayers by suing over everything from slippery shower floors to beds they claim are too short, a Post analysis has found. [read post]
29 May 2014, 1:39 pm
Murdough isn't the first mentally ill inmate to die at Rikers Island. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 8:59 am
More than 8,000 correction personnel work on Rikers Island. [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]
22 Nov 2017, 9:00 am
A Brooklyn man was arrested for the murder of his ex-girlfriend one day after he was released from Rikers Island prison, where he had been serving a sentence for sexual abuse and domestic violence charges. [read post]
15 Mar 2015, 4:20 pm
Courtesy of the New York Daily NewsNYC Corrections Officer Gary Heyward worked Rikers Island for a number of years. [read post]
15 Mar 2015, 4:20 pm
Courtesy of the New York Daily NewsNYC Corrections Officer Gary Heyward worked Rikers Island for a number of years. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 9:00 am
She found that for immigrant prisoners arrested on drug charges and detained at Rikers Island prison in New York City, suspects charged with lower-level crimes were selected for deportation more often than those charged with serious felonies. [read post]
