5 People Have Already Died on Rikers This Year as Crisis Worsens
Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other New York City lockups that ...
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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 ...
To Finally Close Rikers, Panel Suggests Making It Someone’s Only Job
The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission convened by the City Council ...
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Another death in custody at Rikers, officials said — jail on track to outpace last year
Ramel Powell, 38, and Sonia Reyes, 55, both died on Rikers Island earlier this year. Terrence Moore, 55, died in Department ...
Eric Adams supports new finding that Rikers jail won’t close by legal deadline
An independent commission says the facility can still be shuttered despite a jail population that exceeds the capacity of ...
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 a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in ...
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City Jail Population Headed in Wrong Direction for Close-Rikers Plan
In order to deal with more people behind bars, the facilities on Rikers are ... new “discovery” law requiring prosecutors to ...
5 dead at Rikers Island in 6 weeks, NYC DOC says
Five inmates have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in the last six weeks, officials say. CBS News New York's Jennifer ...
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Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs in dark on ICE-on-Rikers executive order
City elected officials and advocates have slammed the plan to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement back on Rikers Island ... potential order, and that the city’s Law Department ...
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As ‘Close Rikers’ grows ever more impossible, progressives insist ever harder on doing it
The only sane answer is to just build new jails on Rikers Island, and transfer inmates as practical, writes The Post Editorial Board. Leonardo Munoz The de Blasio-era law requiring City Hall to ...
Man dies in custody at Rikers — becoming the fifth death in four months
A man died in custody while at Rikers Monday night, becoming the fifth detainee to die in custody at the notorious jail ...
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Woman dies at Rikers Island, NYC jail officials say — 4th detainee death of 2025
A woman died in custody on Rikers Island early Thursday ... It also said it was investigating the incident. A law enforcement source with knowledge of the case said the woman was serving a ...