RELEASE: Shut Rikers March & Rally
**PRESS RELEASE** September 25, 2024 Contact: Yonah Zeitz 347-201-2768 yonah@katalcenter.org Follow online: #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY | @katalcenter | shutrikers.org Community Groups, Elected Officials, and Directly Impacted People Hold #ShutRikers Rally To Call for Federal Courts to Take Over Rikers Under Mayor Adams, at Least 33 People Have Died in City Jails, and the Administration Faces Possible […]
Advocates renew calls to close Rikers Island as possible federaltakeover looms
By Courtney Gross from Spectrum News NY1 Published September 25, 2024 Lawyers for prisoners on Rikers Island continued in court Wednesday to make the same arguments they have for years — that a massive overhaul is needed to make the city’s jails safer, and a federal judge must appoint a receiver to get real change. […]
Judge directs NYC to develop plan for possible federal takeoverof Rikers Island jail
By Philip Marcelo via AP News NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday directed New York City officials to begindeveloping a plan for a possible federal takeover of Rikers Island, following a hearing inManhattan in a long-running case over abuse, mismanagement and other chronic problems at oneof the nation’s largest and most notorious […]
Advocates renew call for Rikers Island closure as judge’s decision on possible federal takeover looms
By Dean Moses via AMNY Criminal justice advocates rallied in Lower Manhattan Wednesday to demand the closure of Rikers Island as a federal judge mulls whether to hand over the city correctional facility to a federal receiver. Judge Laura Taylor Swain held a Sept. 25 at the federal courthouse and was poised to decide whether […]
NYC judge orders DOC and civil rights lawyers to flesh outplan to restructure how jails are ru
By Molly Crane-Newman & Graham Rayman via NY Daily News A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday directed top Department of Correction leadership and civil rights attorneys representing Rikers Island detainees to flesh out a plan to restructure how the city’s jails are run amid staggering and increasing levels of brutality. Chief Judge Laura Swain issued […]
Renewed push on to close Rikers Island
Interview by: Zinnia Maldonado via CBS News CBS News New York’s Zinnia Maldonado has new details aboutthe death of an inmate two years ago. She spoke to his family’sattorney on Wednesday.
