Correction Department Commissioner Louis Molina attended the parade but did not interact with officers, according to Benny Boscio, president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association.
Continue reading →A July 27 internal Correction Department memo states that an audit of fire safety records in Rikers’ North Infirmary Command could not find the mandated fire inspection reports from April 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023, records obtained by the Daily Ne…
Continue reading →In the hours before finding prisoner Curtis Davis in grave condition at the George R. Vierno Center early on July 23, the unnamed officer left their post between 2:07 a.m. and 4:22 a.m. — a span of two hours and fifteen minutes, a Board of Correction r…
Continue reading →Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered lawyers for detainees and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office to file motions by Nov. 17 to hold the city in contempt of prior court orders and to make a case for the federal takeover. City officials’…
Continue reading →The suit in Bronx Supreme Court comes as a Manhattan federal judge is due to hear arguments Thursday about putting Rikers Island and the rest of the city’s jail system under federal receivership amid the difficulties Mayor Adams’ administration has had…
Continue reading →“Unfortunately, such examples of hyper-confrontational behavior and unnecessary and excessive force utilized by staff are all too common,” the monitoring team says.
Continue reading →“My brother suffered from mental illness and the city knew of this,” said Christopher Carter, who filed his lawsuit Friday.
Continue reading →The clinician was attacked in a clinic in the troubled jail’s George R. Vierno Center on Saturday, according to multiple sources.
Continue reading →Hundreds of people held in the jails were forced to undergo the allegedly illegal strip searches in small rooms and even hallways in the Manhattan courts since last October, the lawsuits assert.
Continue reading →Dr. James Uhrig, 69, claims Correction Commissioner Louis Molina revoked his security clearances over posts decrying drug contraband in the jails and backing a federal takeover of the system. The move effectively ended his Correctional Health Services …
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