City of New York to Pay $28 Million in Civil Rights Lawsuit Settlement The City of New York has agreed to pay a settlement of $28.75 million in a civil rights lawsuit filed by a woman whose grandson attempted suicide while in custody on Rikers Island. The lawsuit alleged that three Rikers Island correction officers … Read more
He 2027 was scheduled as the date to close the prison Rikers Island, considered for many years as a prison where the culture of violence has reigned for decades. And although the closure is still pending, we will see, since the number of inmates required to take that step: 3,300, still seems far away, with … Read more
Last Tuesday February 13 formally arracó the time of elections 2024with special contests held in different parts of Queens and The Bronx, and beyond the electoral environment, the day served for defenders of the inmates of the Big Apple prisons to call for the Municipal Administration to give the green light to new reforms that … Read more
Phillip Moreno, an inmate accused of double homicide, was now suspected of having stabbed another inmate dozens of times at Rikers Island, NYC’s largest prison. Moreno (48) was on parole when he was accused of kill a pregnant woman and her boyfriend on Staten Island in 2020. Now he allegedly attacked a fellow inmate with … Read more
A transgender woman sued New York City for $22 million after being held in a men’s detention center on Rikers Islandwhere she was allegedly attacked and harassed. Identify Ali Mileswho calls himself Dylan, She was detained at Rikers Island from June 14, 2022 until July of the same year.. She was later taken to Arizona. … Read more
Chima Williams, a 43-year-old detainee, died yesterday after collapsing while playing basketball on Rikers Island, the largest jail in NYC. It’s about the first death in the New York City prison system this year, after 9 in 2023, 19 in 2022 and 16 in 2021, stood out Daily News. The inmate had been playing basketball … Read more
It is January 3, 2024 a new legislative session began in the state Senate and Assembly of New York, and facing what will be a long journey where New York political leaders will examine a folder of legislative initiatives, on the first day of work, members of the RAPP campaign, which looks after the senior … Read more
Even though New York State passed a law prohibiting solitary confinement of inmates in cells for long periods of time, the prison units of the Big Apple are leaving the order a dead letter, because every day, in prisons such as Rikers Islandprison guards place inmates who disturb the order under what they call “restrictive … Read more
Although it spread like a rumor that one of the highest profile Hispanicson Mayor Eric Adams’ team, was leaving the municipal government due to the inconveniences and differences in the management of the Rikers Island jail, due to On the contrary, it was announced this Wednesday that he will be promoted. It was confirmed that … Read more
Activists denounce that in Rikers Island there continues to be a constant violation of human rights, a fact that authorities deny Photo: Edwin Martínez / Impremedia Las New York City prison authorities They have been in the eye of the hurricane not only because of the more than 40 deaths that have occurred in detention … Read more