NYC commission calls for fixes to speed Close Rikers timeline, reduce jail population
New York City should create two new positions to oversee the closure of Rikers Island, which is mandated to take place by ...
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NYS correction officers’ strike holds up transfers to prison on Rikers as jail population grows
An aerial view of Rikers Island. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) James Conway, DOC’s general counsel and a former NYPD lawyer, attributed the growing population in part to the changes to laws ...