Tag: Rikers
Rikers guard testifies he smuggled drugs into jail in issues of...
An anime-loving Rikers Island correction officer testified Thursday that he smuggled drug-soaked issues of the hyper-popular manga “Demon Slayer” into the jail at...
Ex-Trump CFO Weisselberg starts Rikers sentence in isolated unit ‘like an...
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg started his jail sentence Wednesday in a Rikers Island jail originally built to house people with contagious diseases,...
NYC jail workers busted for smuggling illegal drugs into Rikers Island,...
Three former correction officers, a contractor and a program counselor were charged in Manhattan Federal Court for smuggling a drug store’s worth of...
NYC settles Rikers Island wrongful death suit for $2.6M
New York City has agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a suspect being held on Rikers...
Mayor Adams, Rikers Island detainees baptized by Rev. Sharpton on Good...
It was a very Good Friday for Mayor Adams, who was baptized with inmates on Rikers Island in what he said was a...
Help wanted: City should drop opposition to Rikers receiver
In a lengthy filing and multiple supplementary documents submitted to Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain last week, the city argued against the...
NYC’s “worst” landlord surrenders, taken to Rikers
The city’s most infamous landlord is now at the city’s most infamous jail. Daniel Ohebshalom, who goes by Dan Shalom, turned himself in to...
Closing time: Getting to a Rikers closure, beyond 2027
Among the miscalculated assumptions of the Rikers closure plan adopted by city leaders five years ago was that the jail population would continue...
NYC poised to restore Rikers, jails counseling funding slashed in 2023
New York City is poised to resume funding outside contractors that help people released from Rikers Island and other jails — but the...