Rikers Correctional Facility
Rikers Correctional Facility, one of the largest and most well-known jails in the United States, significantly impacts the correctional landscape. This directory offers articles and resources on the facility’s history, challenges, reforms, and broader implications for the correctional system. Understanding the complexities of Rikers is crucial for those studying or working in corrections. For related topics, explore our section on Correctional Facilities.
The inmate sucker-punched the CO in the head from behind, causing serious injuries
Security footage showed officers walking past the unresponsive detainee before eventually cutting him down; prosecutors said their inaction broke the law
The initiative is part of a broader effort to support correction officers’ health, including peer programs and resilience training
Bradley Ballard died shortly after a doctor finally went into his cell and found him naked, covered in feces and badly infected
Systematic problems with hiring system included a high number of hires who had arrest records, gang ties or other red flags
Correction officers reported using force 4,074 times last year, including 406 incidents alone in September
Agency that oversees jails outlined its proposed changes to rules governing nation’s second-largest jail system
“There’s no silver bullet for fixing Rikers,” said Martin Horn, the commissioner of city jails from 2003 to 2009
Officials encouraged city’s jail watchdog board to approve proposed rule change to allow for creation of 250-bed restrictive housing unit
Move comes a day after Mayor Bill de Blasio visited the 10-jail lockup to announce the end of solitary confinement for 16- and 17-year-old inmates
Faces up to 10 years in prison
Terrence Pendergrass was demoted from a captain to a correction officer following Jason Echevarria’s death
13 female inmates performed a deeply moving dance and poetry piece they helped write
Reforms aimed largely at inmates with mental-health or substance-abuse problems who repeatedly end up in jail on minor offenses
Video in question was played publicly during the administrative hearing of a captain involved in Robert Hinton’s beating in a now-shuttered unit for mentally ill inmates
Officers routinely allowed to put lunches on top of X-ray machines, rather than through them, and were regularly waved through security after setting off metal detectors
Inmates held in solitary confinement at Rikers Island as punishment for violations during previous stints in jail are suing to stop the practice
Other retirements announced Tuesday are two bureau chiefs: Joandrea Davis and Gregory McLaughlin
New York City is using a $400,000 federal grant to review suicides and acts of self-harm in city jails
Chief of Department William Clemmons said that he was not asked to resign
Here are brief accounts, based on the city and state documents, of some of those cases
Four Rikers Island corrections officers have been taken to a local hospital in serious condition after three separate inmate attacks
Commissioner Ponte faced tough questioning over decision to promote two supervisors after they omitted hundreds of inmate fights from report in 2012
Lawmakers will ask officials about conditions for juvenile inmates on Rikers Island
Prosecutor cautioned that NYC’s efforts to curb abuses of youth offenders at Rikers Island jail complex need to go further
Recommendation meant to serve as example and deter other jail workers “who would participate or stand idly by when such brazen misconduct occurs”
16- and 17-year-old inmates will no longer be sent to solitary confinement for breaking rules
In 2009 when Martin Horn left his position as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections, he was already concerned about conditions on Rikers Island
Mayor De Blasio: “We’re handcuffed by some laws in terms of how we choose personnel”
Said he was troubled by a news report that NYC officials provided incomplete statistics on violence at problem-plagued Rikers Island jail
In the civil rights lawsuit, Beverly Ann Griffin said her 39-year-old son, Bradley Ballard, was denied medication, ignored and neglected by jail guards and medical staff
Includes changes to the housing of teenage and young adult inmates, reforms to the use of solitary confinement and a top-to-bottom review of the department’s policies by a private consulting firm
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