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Sep 24, 2021 · During the past few months, Rikers Island has been the site of sequential atrocities so stark that this week four members of New York’s congressional delegation called for its immediate closure ...
Apr 5, 2017 · What is Rikers Island? Rikers is a 400-acre island in the East River across from La Guardia Airport that serves as the principal jail complex for New York City. There are 10 jails on Rikers Island ...
Mar 6, 2024 · The city officially delayed the plan to close Rikers Island and build new jails until 2027. November 2020. New York City Department of Correction officials announced the city would shut down the Manhattan Detention Complex, commonly known as “The Tombs,” in Lower Manhattan and the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island. June 2021
Oct 5, 2023 · The death, of a 27-year-old man awaiting trial on robbery charges, was the ninth in New York City custody this year. The monitor, Steve J. Martin, wrote in the report that the Rikers complex was ...
Oct 11, 2021 · Spread across eight jail buildings on an island in the East River, between the Bronx and Queens, Rikers houses more than 4,800 detainees on a given day, a majority of whom are awaiting trial and ...
Other Rikers Island Facilities - (Does not house people in custody) George Motchan Detention Center (GMDC) Originally opened in 1971 as the Correctional Institution for Women, the jail became a male detention center with the 1988 opening of the Rose M. Singer Center for women and was renamed in memory of a 17-year veteran Correction Officer ...
Oct 11, 2021 · The situation in the notorious Rikers Island jail complex has spiraled out of control in recent months, and detainees have had free rein inside. They are in near-total control of entire units in ...
