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The Rikers Island jail complex.

Third Rikers detainee dies this year as Adams admin pushes back on damning federal report

Posted on May 31, 2023

Bronx DA indicts 10 alleged gang members for violence at Rikers Island

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Council members intro plan to reduce Rikers population by nearly 3,000

Posted on April 11, 2023

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City jails boss avoids providing up-to-date timeline on Rikers’ closure during council hearing

Posted on March 23, 2023

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Brooklyn jail construction delays leave advocates fuming at Mayor, jeopardizes plans to shut Rikers

Correction Commissioner Louis Molina talks contraband and the state of medical services at Rikers Island

Posted on January 24, 2023

Up close and personal: amNewYork sits down with Correction Commissioner Louis Molina about fate of Rikers Island

Posted on January 22, 2023

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Board of Corrections to contemplate restrictions on mail in city jails as BK pols, public defenders voice opposition

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Legal groups file second motion against DOC for failure to provide inmates with medical access

Posted on December 20, 2022

Protest against deaths in Rikers Island

Prisoner found dead on Rikers Island, bringing DOC death toll to new, staggering high

Posted on December 12, 2022

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Legal Aid Society to file for federal takeover of Rikers Island

Posted on November 14, 2022

Rikers Island corrections officers plead guilty to smuggling contraband

Op-Ed | We can’t let the chance for Rikers reform go by

Posted on November 8, 2022

Lower Manhattan

18 hours of action: Rikers Island closure demands repeated at Lower Manhattan protest

Posted on November 3, 2022

A suicide note left on the cell of former Rikers Island detainee, Segundo Guallpa.

Family of deceased inmate at Rikers Island sues the City for wrongful death

Posted on November 2, 2022

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Legal Aid Society rallies for voter rights for incarcerated people in jails

Posted on November 1, 2022

The Rikers Island jail complex.

Rikers Island violence: Corrections officer stabbed 15 times by inmate in bloody attack

Posted on November 1, 2022

Rikers Island corrections officers plead guilty to smuggling contraband

Another Rikers Island inmate dies while in custody in the jail

Posted on October 31, 2022

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Criminal justice reform panel addresses challenges facing Rikers closure

Posted on October 27, 2022

Comptroller Brad Lander

Data from NYC Comptroller shows little improvement in city jails

Posted on October 26, 2022

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Zeldin decries law that limits solitary confinement use as he gets city corrections officers’ union’s backing

Another Rikers Island suicide draws outrage

Latest Rikers Island inmate suicide fuels more outrage from activists who demand facility’s closure

Posted on October 23, 2022

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Documents appear to suggest that Corrections Department staff may have tampered with Rikers Island intake data

Posted on October 17, 2022

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NYC Comptroller calls for a federal receiver to be appointed at Rikers

Posted on October 13, 2022

Protestor call for the end of solitary confinement

‘Solitary confinement is inhumane’: Corrections commissioner tells Council hearing he regrets policy but opposes proposed ban on it

Posted on September 28, 2022

New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Mayor Adams and DOC condemned by Legal Aid Society for two recent jail deaths

Posted on September 27, 2022

Rikers Island corrections officers plead guilty to smuggling contraband

Rikers Island correction officers admit to accepting thousands in bribe money to smuggle in contraband

Posted on September 20, 2022

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Yet another Rikers Island inmate dies in custody – the third since August

Posted on September 14, 2022

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Op-Ed: Treatment Not Jail, A Moral Imperative

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‘The gangs run the jails’: Board of Corrections hear about lack of progress with ongoing NYC jail woes

Posted on September 13, 2022

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LGBTQIA+ Caucus member Erik Bottcher of Manhattan (left) and LGBTQIA+ Caucus co-chair Crystal Hudson of Brooklyn (right) at the LGBT Community Center last year.

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