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US attorney in Manhattan seeking federal takeover of city's troubled Rikers Island jail complex

A federal prosecutor says his office will seek to have control of New York City’s trouble-plagued Rikers Island jail complex taken away from Mayor Eric Adam’s administration in favor of a court-appointed outside authority

The Independent UK

NYC won’t make deadline to close Rikers, public contract notice indicates

NEW YORK — New York City might blow the 2027 deadline for closing Rikers Island by two years, according to a public notice on a city contract posted Monday.

Tribune News Service

Rikers doctors accused of causing detainee’s death by botching drug withdrawal plan

NEW YORK — A new lawsuit claims city doctors botched a plan to ease a Rikers Island detainee with psychiatric issues off prescription drugs, causing a catastrophic seizure from withdrawal that led him to die.

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Rikers Island inmate dies — first fatality at troubled jail this year

NEW YORK — An inmate awaiting sentencing for repeatedly peddling drugs outside a Midtown fast food joint died early Saturday on Rikers Island, the first death of 2023 at the troubled jail complex, the Daily News has learned.

Tribune News Service

NYC failing to move Rikers Island detainees out of squalid temporary holding cells within 24 hours, lawyers tell judge

NEW YORK — New York City has failed to comply with a federal judge’s order to make sure Rikers Island detainees are moved out of often fetid temporary holding cells into regular jail beds within 24 hours, according to a legal motion filed Wednesday night.

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Longtime Trump CFO Weisselberg gets 5 months in jail in tax fraud case

Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump and the star prosecution witness in the Trump Organization's criminal trial, was sentenced on Tuesday to five months behind bars for helping engineer a wide-ranging tax fraud at the former president's real estate company.

Reuters

Rikers Island correction officers contribute to flow of drugs and other contraband in NYC jails

NEW YORK — A packet of drugs in a McDonald’s salad. Vacuum-sealed marijuana in a lunch box. Hennessy cognac in AriZona Iced Tea bottles and Ciroc coconut-flavored vodka in Poland Spring water bottles.

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Family of NYC detainee who hanged himself on Rikers Island files wrongful death lawsuit

NEW YORK — The family of the latest detainee to die in New York City jails has filed a wrongful death claim against the Correction Department.

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Rikers detainees say brown water bring rashes and stomach sickness; advocates say it's another sign of inhumane NYC jail conditions

NEW YORK — Brown water spews from faucets and shower heads in at least one Rikers Island housing area, detainees say — a condition they blame for rashes and stomach woes, and which advocates say is another sign of deplorably cruel conditions at the city’s jails.

Tribune News Service

Man, 28, dies while in custody on Rikers Island; 16th death at jail this year

NEW YORK — Another inmate has died on Rikers Island, the New York City Department of Correction said Saturday, the 16th prisoner to die in custody this year.

Tribune News Service

NYC jail training chief quits after 9 days

NEW YORK — A former Rikers Island official who led its Emergency Service Unit at a time it was criticized for use of violent tactics quit his new post as head of the Department of Correction’s training program after just nine days on the job.

Tribune News Service

NYC Rikers Island scales back program shown to curb youth detainee violence

NEW YORK — The New York City Correction Department last year found a program that worked to reduce violence in some units in its jail for younger detainees — but then the agency fired the initiative’s leader and now its future seems very much in flux.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Gradual improvement at Rikers not enough when lives are at stake

We commend New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Comptroller Brad Lander for their unannounced visit to the great shame off the coast of Queens: Rikers Island.

Tribune News Service

Accused ‘duck sauce killer’ committed suicide to avoid return to Rikers, note says

NEW YORK — The accused Queens “duck sauce killer” denied gunning down a restaurant deliveryman and said he was committing suicide because he didn’t want to be sent back to the notorious Rikers Island jail complex.

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The Independent UK

Doctor convicted of sexually abusing patients becomes 12th person to die in New York jails this year

Activists have long called for shutting down Rikers Island prison, where disgraced neurologist was found dead

The Independent UK

Eric Adams hails progress at Rikers Island despite deaths and ‘full-fledged humanitarian crisis’ in city jails

25 people have died at the troubled facility since 2021. A federal monitor has ‘serious’ doubts about the city’s ability to fix it. But New York City’s mayor claims the era of ‘dysfunction’ is over

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