Governor, Mayor Spar Over Plans, Timing To Close Rikers Island
Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to close the Rikers jail complex and replace it with community based prisons.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to close the Rikers jail complex and replace it with community based prisons.
The Queens facility is one of four proposed borough based jails – the others in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan – that would reportedly cost more than $10 billion.
The 10-year plan to close the Rikers complex announced last summer would put smaller jails in each borough.
Surveillance cameras captured the fight on Oct. 5. The inmate threw the officer to the ground and then punched him several times.
A Rikers Island correction officer is facing multiple charges after police say he beat a man in Queens while off duty.
Surveillance video from a visitation room in April shows the woman holding a toddler at a divided table before reaching down and placing something into the diaper.
City officials say they envision more humane settings that would feature community space, ground-floor retail outlets and offices for inmate support services.
Officers from the New York City Department of Correction on Wednesday called on their commissioner to resign following a series of attacks in city jails.
A Rikers Island correction officer was slashed across the face on Friday night, prompting calls for change.
Another Rikers Island correction officer has been attacked on the job by an inmate. The Department of Correction's union says it's the fourth such attack in just six weeks.
In announcing plans to close Rikers Island, the city has proposed new jails in all the New York City boroughs except Staten Island.
The mayor said lawmakers have agreed to a single public review process for four proposed sites in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens that will include space for 5,000 detainees.
Cameras inside Rikers captured the incident, which happened inside the George Motchan detention center on Saturday.
As 1010 WINS reported, the attackers are said to be members of the Bloods and all of them were housed in a special unit for inmates 21 and younger who act out.
City and Department of Correction officials announced Tuesday that one of the nine jails on Rikers will close this summer as part of a long-term goal to get inmates into facilities closer to home.
Bronx DA Darcel Clark announced the indictments Thursday of the 15 inmates in the alleged beating of Correction Captain Awais Ghauri.
Two correction captains are being accused of cowardice, after an inmate sucker-punched a colleague at Rikers Island.
It costs the city more than $1 billion a year to run the Rikers Island jail – and the cost keeps going up, even as the number of prisoners goes down.
Brian Coll's victim, Ronald Spear, died in 2012 after he was repeatedly kicked in the head while restrained on the floor outside a jail doctor's office.
Two Rikers Island corrections officers have been suspended without pay after a prisoner escaped on their watch last week, officials announced Sunday.
A Bronx teenager who has spent the past year on Rikers Island after being accused of a crime he claims he didn't commit has been released on bail.
Naquan Hill, 24, was reportedly one of six inmates in a yard when around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday it's believed that he was able to make his way over a fence while guards were distracted.
The jail complex at Rikers Island was placed on lockdown Wednesday night after an inmate was reported missing.
The alleged spying occurred "over a period of months this year" and "city rules expressly prohibit surveillance by DOC of calls made to DOI investigators," DOI Commissioner Mark Peters said.
The city will spend $10 million a year to guarantee all Rikers Island inmates serving sentences of a year or less will have a shot at short-term employment once they do their time.
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