Louis A. Molina, the jails commissioner, has failed to stop rampant violence, and officials have shut down avenues of information about what happens behind bars, according to a report filed in federal court.
Tag: Rikers Island Prison Complex
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Two Decades of Prison Did Not Prepare Me for the Horrors of County Jail
Most incarcerated people will eventually return to their communities. The trauma they suffer on the inside comes with them.
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New York Awards Up to $53 Million to Detainees Wrongly Held in Solitary
The settlement in federal court with people who were held in solitary while they awaited trials is one of the largest involving the city’s Correction Department and its troubled lockups, including Rikers Island.
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Clash Looms Between Council and Mayor Adams as Speaker Sets Her Agenda
The City Council speaker, Adrienne Adams, called for closing the Rikers Island jail complex by 2027 and expanding 3-K for All, in opposition to Mayor Adams’s stance.
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Rikers Is Already Awful, and It’s Worse if You’re Trans
New York City has the chance to oppose the national rollback on trans rights.