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.
As the jail population outpaces capacity, officials explore psychiatric facilities for sites originally meant to replace Rikers Island
Under a new executive order, federal agencies can conduct criminal probes and intelligence sharing on gang activity and crimes committed within the jail
The NYCDOC last went to 12-hour tours during the 2021 and 2022 staffing crisis when hundreds of COs became sick during the pandemic; the policy was lifted in 2022
Dozens of Rikers officers showed up for the court hearing alongside the female officer who was attacked
“A female corrections officer ... she serves and watches over us and protects us and she has to deal with this? It’s not right”
Wording of internal memo seems to blame officer for not preventing violence
Tore away Plexiglass to get inside post where officer was being assaulted
The injuries were described as minor but the officers were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte’s decision to fire them came after a judge recommended the action in September
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”
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