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 capacity of planned ...
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 appointed by the City Council ...
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Rikers Island jails won’t close by 2027 deadline, independent commission finds
A new report says delays in building four replacement jails mean the city will miss the legally mandated Rikers closure date.
NYC man, 20, who died after 8 days at Rikers went in healthy, family says
The otherwise healthy young man who died at Elmhurst Hospital after just over a week on Rikers Island had a ruptured appendix ...
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City Jail Population Surpasses 7,000, Headed in Wrong Direction for Close-Rikers Plan
The population on Rikers Island has risen to 7,067 people this week, the highest total since 2019 — and almost twice as high ...
Adams and Adams clash on Rikers
Adrienne Adams convened the commission in the somewhat more peaceful days of 2023, before she was challenging Eric Adams’ reelection. The 114-page report found, in short, that Rikers can’t close by ...
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City cannot shut Rikers by 2027, landmark report finds
In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 ...
Westchester Resident Gets Prison In Smuggling Scandal At Rikers: Feds
He is among six officials and inmates who helped supply a "dangerous contraband market" at the New York City jail.