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Lefty NYC Council pols want to spend $1M to speed up Rikers Island closure
The City Council is considering spending $1.1 million on a measure aimed at speeding up the closing of Rikers Island — a bid ...
Gothamist1d
NYC officials to discuss what's next for Rikers Island jails at City Council hearing
The hearing comes less than a month after an independent commission found officials won’t meet the 2027 deadline to close the ...
Brooklyn Paper1d
The art of confinement: Rikers Island detainees’ work goes on display in Bed-Stuy
Inside his cell on Rikers Island, Brian Croskey spends hours every day drawing elaborate artwork to free his mind.
9 jurors picked as defense wants Weinstein moved from jail to hospital during retrial
As nine jurors were picked on the second day of jury selection in Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo rape retrial in New York, his ...
City council, activists defend Rikers Island closure plan amid criticism
Members of the city council and activists are pushing back on criticism of the plan to close Rikers Island— and build four smaller jails. The project is billions ...
NYC Mayor Adams’ office issues order allowing ICE, fed agencies on Rikers
Mayor Adams’ office issued an executive order late Tuesday allowing ICE agents to operate on Rikers Island — a move sought by ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle2d
Rikers’ law libraries lack supplies and remain disorganized, report finds
Detainees on Rikers Island have continued to struggle to get ... They provide detainees and inmates with basic resources for legal research, notary services, photocopying services, typing services ...
City Journal8d
The Plan to Close Rikers Is Failing—But No One Will Admit It
The same week, a non-renewed, non-transformed Rikers Island reported its fifth inmate death of the year: Dashawn Jenkins, 27, who died of a ruptured appendix after days of obvious symptoms that jail ...