Rikers Island must be shut down by 2027, according to a city law enacted during the de Blasio Adminstration in 2019. However, ...
The New York City Department of Correction has regularly violated state law by illegally confining people in jail cells for ...
A Department of Correction investigator improperly provided information to federal agents about two immigrants, a city ...
Nearly 30 people recently told a federal judge that they want to be put in charge of the troubled jail complex and be ...
The DOI investigation stems from two incidents uncovered in February 2025 where a Dept. of Correction investigator illegally gave information to ICE about two people held in New York City jails, ...
The Department of Investigation said the city Department of Correction “failed to provide” appropriate training to staff ...
The Council approved the lease of city land to build housing for the formerly incarcerated in the Bronx, over the objections ...
Two more people held in city jails died by suicide in 2025 and three more fatally overdosed on contraband narcotics, the New ...
The city’s executive order to let U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reopen an office on Rikers Island is illegal, ...
A New York City Department of Correction officer violated the city’s sanctuary protections for immigrants by providing ...
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Rikers Health Worker Sprayed Air Freshener While Feces-Smeared Man Neared Death in His Cell
While a 29-year-old detainee with severe mental illness was on the brink of death in his Rikers Island cell last month, a medical staffer stood outside his cell door spraying air freshener, according ...
Bobby says his chaotic stint in the notorious jail was filled with drugs, fights, and time in solitary confinement.
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