In New York City, the Department of Correction is cleaning and sanitizing cells, common spaces, showers and transport buses more regularly. Anyone sick at Rikers Island, the notorious New York City jail where Harvey Weinstein is being held, is screened and could be sent to an area hospital or...
Bloods, Crips and Trinitarios have large numbers here. Beatings, murders and stabbings were common in the 90s. Although stricter policies have been enforced, it has not stopped the violence. Rikers Island is a prison complex in New York that is named after the island...
NEW YORK— Nearly 200 survivors of sex abuse in New York jails rallied in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, saying there's been no action from the state or city to make jails safer. The Adult Survivors Act signed in 2022gave survivors one year to sue their abusers and eliminated the statute o...
UK to hold offenders in police cells amid justice system ‘crisis’ Operation Early Dawn activated following violent unrest across country in recent weeks Save News in-depth How ‘sentencing inflation’ fuelled England’s prisons crisis UK officials considered Rikers Island prison barge to ease capac...
Jay-Z and Meek Mill's criminal justice reform organization is sending nearly 100,000 surgical masks to several correctional facilities across the U.S., including the troubled Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman and the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City. The masks will be sent ...