An attorney with the controversy-embroiled Queens Defenders was busted for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-soaked paper into a Rikers Island facility on Wednesday.
Read MoreA federal judge took the extraordinary step of stripping the city of its control over Rikers Island, ruling that City Hall could no longer be trusted to tamp down the violence that has plagued the dangerous jail complex for decades.
Read MoreThe Adams administration said late Tuesday that they will soon allow federal immigration agents onto Rikers Island, a move critics say could violate New York City’s sanctuary city laws.
Read MoreThe Department of Correction’s death toll continued to climb at a rapid rate this week after a 27-year-old died on Rikers Island on Monday night after allegedly suffering from a medical emergency.
Read MoreA 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time in a month – and the second time in a week – that a Rikers detainee has died.
Read MoreTop officials at the Department of Correction said Friday that the mayor’s office has yet to speak with them about the potential return of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers to Rikers Island, despite Mayor Eric Adams announcing the change weeks ago.
Read MoreThe city’s jail watchdog board bashed Department of Correction leadership Tuesday after the agency failed to tell them about a new punitive housing unit opened in alleged chaotic fashion last week.
Read MoreThe monitor appointed by a judge to track violence in the city’s notorious jail complex said in a highly-anticipated report last week that a yet-to-be-implemented city law banning solitary confinement would “only exacerbate the current dangerous conditions” on Rikers Island.
Read MoreA new report from the Legal Aid Society this week details the failures of local and state governments to decarcerate its jails and prisons as the pandemic raged inside of them.
Read MoreCity Hall late Friday told a federal judge that she should look no further than the current Department of Correction commissioner should she choose to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island and hand the notorious jail complex over to a receiver.
Read MoreWhile it’s long been expected, the contract presented for Manhattan’s borough-based jail made it official – none of the new jails will be completed before Rikers is required to close.
Read MorePart two of the Eagle’s deep dive into the history of Rikers and how it may impact the troubled jail complex’s future.
Read MoreCorrectional officers on Rikers Island refused to allow nurses to check on a 23-year-old woman for two days while she suffered a medical emergency inside an isolated cell, according to a new report from the Department of Correction’s oversight board.
Read MoreA Rikers Island corrections captain was recently accused of regularly sexually harassing and assaulting an officer who worked under his watch.
Read MoreA federal takeover of Rikers Island has never been more of a possibility.
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