Brooklyn Paper Board of Corrections to contemplate restrictions on mail in city jails as BK pols, public defenders voice opposition
Courts Legal groups file second motion against DOC for failure to provide inmates with medical access Posted on December 20, 2022
Queens Prisoner found dead on Rikers Island, bringing DOC death toll to new, staggering high Posted on December 12, 2022
Lower Manhattan 18 hours of action: Rikers Island closure demands repeated at Lower Manhattan protest Posted on November 3, 2022
Queens Family of deceased inmate at Rikers Island sues the City for wrongful death Posted on November 2, 2022
Politics Legal Aid Society rallies for voter rights for incarcerated people in jails Posted on November 1, 2022
Rikers Island Rikers Island violence: Corrections officer stabbed 15 times by inmate in bloody attack Posted on November 1, 2022
Rikers Island Another Rikers Island inmate dies while in custody in the jail Posted on October 31, 2022
Rikers Island Criminal justice reform panel addresses challenges facing Rikers closure Posted on October 27, 2022
PoliticsNY Zeldin decries law that limits solitary confinement use as he gets city corrections officers’ union’s backing
Bronx Latest Rikers Island inmate suicide fuels more outrage from activists who demand facility’s closure Posted on October 23, 2022
Rikers Island Documents appear to suggest that Corrections Department staff may have tampered with Rikers Island intake data Posted on October 17, 2022
Politics NYC Comptroller calls for a federal receiver to be appointed at Rikers Posted on October 13, 2022
Health ‘Solitary confinement is inhumane’: Corrections commissioner tells Council hearing he regrets policy but opposes proposed ban on it Posted on September 28, 2022
Politics Mayor Adams and DOC condemned by Legal Aid Society for two recent jail deaths Posted on September 27, 2022
Courts Rikers Island correction officers admit to accepting thousands in bribe money to smuggle in contraband Posted on September 20, 2022
Coronavirus Yet another Rikers Island inmate dies in custody – the third since August Posted on September 14, 2022
Coronavirus ‘The gangs run the jails’: Board of Corrections hear about lack of progress with ongoing NYC jail woes Posted on September 13, 2022