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A Manhattan judge on Monday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from going around a municipal law banning solitary confinement in city prisons, including Rikers Island.
Mayor Eric Adams exceeded his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a new law banning solitary confinement in ...
Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...
Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...
Two people died on Rikers Island in the same afternoon following medical emergencies last Friday, June 20. They mark the ...
A new Board of Correction report has backed up allegations detailed in October by the Daily News — that jail staff are ...
Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.
After NYC Department of Correction (DOC) confirmed on Saturday, June 21, that two additional people have died on or in ...
The death toll at Rikers Island jumped to seven this year with two men dying at the notorious jail Friday, officials said.
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THE CITY on MSNFrom Law to Loophole: State Prisons Use Post-Strike Struggles to Circumvent Solitary ReformsDuring the state prison strike earlier this year, Gov. Kathy Hochul agreed to “pause” many elements of the so-called HALT ...
A judge has blocked New York City’s mayor from letting federal immigration authorities reopen an office at the city’s main ...
For nearly 100 years, New York City has been housing its detainees in jail cells on Rikers Island. And for all of that time, the jail complex has been known almost exclusively as a place of ...
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