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Under Scrutiny for New Deaths, Rikers Officials Shut Down Communication

No longer will the troubled jail system publicly report when somebody dies in custody.

Reason

Mentally ill NYC jail detainees more likely to harm themselves, according to data

NEW YORK — Mentally ill detainees on Rikers Island and in other city jails have become more likely to deliberately hurt themselves in recent years, data obtained by the New York Daily News shows.

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Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg released from Rikers after 100 days in jail for tax fraud

NEW YORK — The Trump Organization’s convicted finance chief Allen Weisselberg was sprung from Rikers Island on Wednesday.

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NYC won’t make deadline to close Rikers, public contract notice indicates

NEW YORK — New York City might blow the 2027 deadline for closing Rikers Island by two years, according to a public notice on a city contract posted Monday.

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Rikers doctors accused of causing detainee’s death by botching drug withdrawal plan

NEW YORK — A new lawsuit claims city doctors botched a plan to ease a Rikers Island detainee with psychiatric issues off prescription drugs, causing a catastrophic seizure from withdrawal that led him to die.

Tribune News Service

Rikers Island inmate dies — first fatality at troubled jail this year

NEW YORK — An inmate awaiting sentencing for repeatedly peddling drugs outside a Midtown fast food joint died early Saturday on Rikers Island, the first death of 2023 at the troubled jail complex, the Daily News has learned.

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Longtime Trump CFO Weisselberg gets 5 months in jail in tax fraud case

Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump and the star prosecution witness in the Trump Organization's criminal trial, was sentenced on Tuesday to five months behind bars for helping engineer a wide-ranging tax fraud at the former president's real estate company.

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Rikers Island Sees 19th Death This Year After Judge Gives Leaders More Time To Fix Its Messes

Somehow deaths have climbed even though the prison population has dropped.

Reason

Inmate Deaths, Threat Of Federal Takeover Will Determine The Fate Of Rikers Island

The humanitarian crisis worsens as politicians and advocates debate closing or fixing the embattled facility.

Zenger

Yet another Rikers Island detainee dies, bringing NYC jail death toll to 18 this year

A 26-year-old man held at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex died Monday — the 18th such death in 2022 — exactly three years to the day from the start of his pretrial detention in the city jails.

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Rikers Island Sees 17th Prisoner Death This Year

Is a federal takeover of the troubled jail pending?

Reason

NYC Rikers Island scales back program shown to curb youth detainee violence

NEW YORK — The New York City Correction Department last year found a program that worked to reduce violence in some units in its jail for younger detainees — but then the agency fired the initiative’s leader and now its future seems very much in flux.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Gradual improvement at Rikers not enough when lives are at stake

We commend New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Comptroller Brad Lander for their unannounced visit to the great shame off the coast of Queens: Rikers Island.

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NYC jail stabbings, slashings up 71% to hit seven-year high despite fewer Rikers detainees

NEW YORK — City jail stabbings and slashings are on an alarming rise even as the numbers of detainees sinks, city statistics show.

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Doctor convicted of sexually abusing patients becomes 12th person to die in New York jails this year

Activists have long called for shutting down Rikers Island prison, where disgraced neurologist was found dead

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Rikers Island inmate dies of suspected drug overdose, becoming 10th detainee to die this year

NEW YORK — A Department of Correction officer was fired Monday after a Rikers Island inmate died of a suspected overdose.

The Independent UK

Eric Adams hails progress at Rikers Island despite deaths and ‘full-fledged humanitarian crisis’ in city jails

25 people have died at the troubled facility since 2021. A federal monitor has ‘serious’ doubts about the city’s ability to fix it. But New York City’s mayor claims the era of ‘dysfunction’ is over

Reason

Rikers Island Sees 2 Prisoner Deaths in 2 Days

Just a week ago, New York City convinced a federal judge not to seize control of the jail.

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Rikers Island detainee dies — seventh death in NYC custody this year

NEW YORK — A detainee died on Rikers Island early Monday — the seventh person to die in custody at the jail complex this year.

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No federal court takeover of Rikers Island — for now — as judge accepts NYC plan

A federal judge on Tuesday accepted Mayor Adams’ administration’s plan to fix the staffing and security crisis at Rikers Island — with a promise to review the city’s progress in November.

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Editorial: How many more? Rikers death latest in a string of failures that demand action

Too often, in the absence of adequate mental health treatment options, jails and prisons end up as the default provider of mental health services to those in crisis. This is wrong; New York must strive to make care available to all who need it before they end up harming themselves…

The Independent UK

Fourth inmate dies at Rikers Island as deadline to fix crisis-plagued NYC prison looms

‘We are truly heartbroken for this person’s family and loved ones and we wish to express our deepest condolences’ commissioner says

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NYC parolees jailed on minor violations denied state-required court hearings, says Legal Aid Society

Ninety-one Rikers Island detainees jailed on parole violations have been denied in-person court hearings required by a new state law, defense lawyers say.

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