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  • As Deaths Mount in New York Jails and Prisons, Advocates Rally for Oversight: Reporters’ Notebook

    March 29, 2025

    By Chris Gelardi at New York FocusMarch 29, 2025 Over the past three months, New York Focus has reported extensively on the New York stateprison system’s descent into tumult. An […]

  • Woman detainee dies at Rikers, fourth death in 30 days amid spike in NYC jails population

    March 20, 2025

    By Graham Rayman at the Daily NewsMarch 20, 2025 A woman held on Rikers Island died by possible suicide early Thursday, according to correction officials and sources. The death, an […]

  • ‘Dysfunction, violence and neglect’: Independent Rikers Commission releases new blueprint for island jail’s closure

    March 19, 2025

    By Jada Camille at amNYMarch 19th, 2025 The Independent Rikers Commission, a collective tasked with examining the city’s plan to close Rikers Island, has unveiled a critical blueprint for reform [&h…

  • City cannot shut Rikers by 2027, landmark report finds

    March 19, 2025

    By Jacob Kaye at Queens Daily EagleMarch 19th, 2025 In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current […]

  • Connecticut organization fights food insecurity by teaching farming

    March 9, 2025

    By Sydney Boyo at NBC ConnecticutMarch 9th, 2025 Over 465,000 people in Connecticut are food insecure, according to Connecticut Foodshare, and learning how to farm can help combat this. Hundreds [&hel…

  • NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ plans to allow ICE into Rikers worry immigrant rights advocates

    March 4, 2025

    By Bianca Gonzalez at PrismMarch 4th, 2025 Adams has not yet issued the executive order, but immigrant rights groups say the move would target immigrants presumed innocent while awaiting trial [&helli…

  • Advocacy groups say state prison agency can’t halt law limiting solitary confinement

    February 24, 2025

    By Rebecca C. Lewis at City and StateFebruary 24th, 2025 The commissioner of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision released a memo last week announcing that certain provisions…

  • “He’s not standing up”: Protesters want Hakeem Jeffries to lead an aggressive opposition to Trump

    February 21, 2025

    Author: Russell Payne with Salon2/21/25 Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the central Brooklyn office of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. D-N.Y., on Thursday to demand that the minority leader put up [&he…

  • Another Death in NYC Jail, as Mayor Adams Plans to Send in ICE

    February 20, 2025

    Author: Alexander Lekhtman with Filter2/20/25The New York City jails crisis is spiraling; a 34th person is now reported to have died in custodyunder the tenure of Mayor Eric Adams (D). […]

  • Man held on Rikers for 19 months becomes first to die in jails in 2025

    February 20, 2025

    Author: Jacob Kaye with Queens Daily Eagle2/20/25A 38-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Wednesday morning.Ramel Powell, who had been held in the city’s jails for nearly two years as […]

  • Rikers Island Sees Another Inmate Die in Custody Amid Calls for Federal Takeover – and Return of ICE

    February 19, 2025

    Author: Robert Pozarycki with amNY Date: February 19, 2025 Another individual incarcerated on Rikers Island has died, the Correction Department (DOC) announced early Wednesday morning. The unidentifie…

  • Rikers Island detainee dies in jail complex’s first death of 2025

    February 19, 2025

    Author: 1010 WINS Newsroom with AudacyFebruary 19th, 2025 NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee […]

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