City Limits:Advocates, Attorneys Push Back Against Plan to Transfer Women and Transgender People Off Rikers
By JeanMarie Evelly via City Limits Beginning Monday, the city and state started transferring more than 200 women and transgender people being held at Rikers Island to state-run prison facilities in Westchester County—a move officials say will help ease staffing issues at the troubled city jail complex, where conditions have deteriorated in recent months to crisis […]