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Jan 12, 2022 · Fight night in cell 15. On Oct. 19, inside cell 15 at the George R. Vierno Center, an 850-bed jail on Rikers Island, fight night was underway. It was organized by a leader of the Trinitarios — a ...
Oct 5, 2021 · Rikers Island has been notorious for violence and neglect for decades. But detainees, corrections officers and officials tell us the New York City jail complex has plunged into a new state of emergency. As part of the settlement of Nuñez v. City of New York, a 2011 class-action lawsuit filed by Rikers Island detainees, federal monitors ...
Oct 18, 2019 · Rikers Island is among the world's largest jails - it is perched on a 413 acre (167 hectare) island between Queens and the Bronx and holds about 7,000 inmates, down from more than 20,000 at its ...
Dec 29, 2023 · Rikers Island has long struggled to care for mentally ill detainees, with lapses chronicled in regular reports by court monitors appointed to oversee reforms in the jail system. But the problem ...
Oct 19, 2023 · In 2017, the commission, led by the state’s former chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, unveiled a plan to close Rikers in 10 years and build four smaller jails to replace it. The new jails are ...
Jun 28, 2015 · Inside Rikers Island, Through the Eyes of the People Who Live and Work There. The entry way and the bridge to Rikers Island, in Queens, New York on June 25, 2014. Photo: Ashley Gilbertson/VII ...
Oct 21, 2021 · While the photos of OBCC’s intake are visual depictions of the Rikers Island crisis, state Sen. Jessica Ramos, who visited the facility in September, said the one thing that “no picture can ...
