Death of woman at Rikers, fourth in 30 days, comes amid outcry over spike in NYC jails population
The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility and is the fourth fatality connected to New ...
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Rikers won’t close on time: new report
Rikers Island will not shutter by the legally mandated deadline in 2027, according to a report released last week by the ...
New York Post2d
Rikers inmate dies in ‘medical emergency,’ is fifth convict to die in custody in less than two months
A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill ... emergency that night while incarcerated at the Vierno Center at the jail, according to the city Department of Correction.
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A timeline on the closure of Rikers Island
Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...
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‘Dysfunction, violence and neglect’: Independent Rikers Commission release new blueprint for island jail’s closure
The Independent Rikers Commission, a collective tasked with examining the city’s plan to close Rikers Island, has unveiled a critical blueprint for reform and closure of the infamous jail complex that ...
Rikers detainee dies from apparent medical episode, fifth NYC jail-linked death in 6 weeks
The death was the fifth since Feb. 19, when Ramel Powell died at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. That total matches the ...
Queens Chronicle1d
Neighbors of Queens jail demand answers
City agencies last Thursday held a design workshop at Borough Hall for the Queens jail, one of four facilities slated to replace Rikers Island, but not without hearing some loud, ...
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Woman detainee dies at Rikers, 4th death in 30 days amid spike in NYC jails population
NEW YORK — A woman held on Rikers Island died ... clear Thursday how many women are housed there instead of the Rose M. Singer Center which was built as a women’s jail, but now also houses ...
New York Post11d
As ‘Close Rikers’ grows ever more impossible, progressives insist ever harder on doing it
In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can’t close by 2027, but the reality-denying City Council refuses to admit it. The first of the ...