Rikers Island Correction Officer Stabbed While Trying To Break Up Fight
The female officer was attacked Thursday morning.
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The female officer was attacked Thursday morning.
The facilities currently house about 750 people combined.
The mayor's $8 billion plan to close Rikers is incumbent upon replacing Rikers with a jail in every borough except Staten Island.
Sources say the victim had just left a party when he was gunned down.
"We have to go farther. So let's take the next step. Let's end solitary confinement altogether," he said.
Seventeen corrections officers in New York City will face disciplinary action in connection with the death of a 27-year-old transgender woman who died at Rikers Island in 2019, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday. Three officers and one captain will be suspended without pay.
A Rikers Island inmate is back in custody after officials said he attempted a second escape in the past week.
An inmate escaped from Rikers Island on Thursday, but was captured in the water by two correction officers who jumped in after him.
Rikers Island and other local jails have been hit especially hard by the coronavirus outbreak.
The Legal Aid Society warns if the pandemic continues at this pace, the entire local jail population will be infected within a matter of weeks.
As coronavirus cases continue to surge in New York City, leaders fear hospitals may run out of beds. Officials are working on creative solutions to make more space.
The disgraced Hollywood mogul was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison.
A spokesman tells CBS2 the former movie mogul stumbled Sunday without his walker, and has throbbing head pain.
The former movie producer had been at Bellevue Hospital since his conviction last month on third degree rape and criminal sex act charges.
Prosecutors say the guards received thousands of dollars to get the contraband past security.
Nicholas Feliciano was arrested on a parole violation and placed at Rikers Island 10 days before his suicide attempt.
Department of Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann said three guards and one captain are now under investigation and could face disciplinary action.
The officer was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A mother desperate to free her only child from a Manhattan jail believes she was set up by city workers.
The plan centers around the city's ability to drastically decrease the jail population from about 7,000 now to 3,300 inmates.
"His job, by definition, to be worried about how we keep crime down," de Blasio said.
Advocates of the $8.7 billion plan say the smaller jails will encourage rehabilitation by moving inmates closer to their families and attorneys.
The City Council vote to close Rikers Island and open four small community jails with a greatly reduced capacity has the NYPD's top cop afraid the city won't be as safe.
Rikers Island is another step closer to being closed. On Wednesday, a city council subcommittee voted 5-1 to close Rikers and open four smaller borough-based jails.
The mayor has proposed a $8.7 billion plan to replace the complex with four smaller jails in Boerum Hill, Kew Gardens, Lower Manhattan and Mott Haven.
