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City cannot shut Rikers by 2027, landmark report finds
Queens Daily Eagle
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 […]
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Connecticut organization fights food insecurity by teaching farming
NBC Connecticut
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…
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ plans to allow ICE into Rikers worry immigrant rights advocates
Prism Reports
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…
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Advocacy groups say state prison agency can’t halt law limiting solitary confinement
City and State
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…
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“He’s not standing up”: Protesters want Hakeem Jeffries to lead an aggressive opposition to Trump
Salon
By Russell Payne at SalonFebruary 21st, 2025 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 [&hell…
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Another Death in NYC Jail, as Mayor Adams Plans to Send in ICE
Filter
By Alexander Lekhtman at FilterFebruary 20th, 2025 The New York City jails crisis is spiraling; a 34th person is now reported to have died in custodyunder the tenure of Mayor […]
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Man held on Rikers for 19 months becomes first to die in jails in 2025
Queens Daily Eagle
By Jacob Kaye at Queens Daily EagleFebruary 20th, 2025 A 38-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Wednesday morning. Ramel Powell, who had been held in the city’s jails for […]
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Rikers Island Sees Another Inmate Die in Custody Amid Calls for Federal Takeover – and Return of ICE
AMNY
By Robert Pozarycki at amNYFebruary 19, 2025 Another individual incarcerated on Rikers Island has died, the Correction Department (DOC) announced early Wednesday morning. The unidentified inmate was f…
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Rikers Island detainee dies in jail complex’s first death of 2025
1010 WINS Newsroom with Audacy
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 death […]
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State prison oversight group: Marcy fatality review ‘could take years’
Spectrum News
By Kate Lisa at Spectrum NewsJanuary 29th, 2025 It could take years for the state Commission on Correction to complete a mortality review of an incarcerated man who was beaten […]
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City nominates itself to take over Rikers
Queens Daily Eagle
By Jacob Kaye with Queens Daily Eagle.January 24th, 2025 City Hall late Friday told a federal judge that she should look no further than the current Department of Correction commissioner […]
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Fed Up: City held in contempt over jail conditions as federal judge favors receivership
By Tandy Lau from Amsterdam News Published on December 5, 2024 Federal judge Laura Taylor Swain held the City of New York in civil contempt last Wednesday, Nov. 27 for […]
