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“Transgender Rikers inmate gets 7 years for raping female prisoner” A transgender Rikers inmate raped a female prisoner while in the women’s section of the jail and has been sentenced to seven years, officials said Monday. Ramel Blount, 33, who goes by Diamond Blount, pleaded guilty to attempted rape April 7 in an apparent plea…
“What a federal court takeover would mean for Rikers Island” A push to put the city’s embattled jail system under a federal court’s control is a judicial tool of last resort — one that would give sweeping powers to an independent authority tasked with finally ending the violence on Rikers Island. Previous attempts to fix the notorious lockup have failed miserably, Manhattan…
“Federal takeover of Rikers Island isn’t a bitter pill” Mayor Eric Adams is better off seeing calls for a federal takeover of the Rikers Island jail complex as an opportunity, not a threat. In a six-page letter to federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain, Southern District prosecutors call for “the appointment of a receiver with independent…
“Eric Adams begs New Yorkers for a chance to clean up Rikers” Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday begged New Yorkers to give him a “chance” to fix the dangerous conditions at the city-run Rikers Island — one day after the federal prosecutors threatened to take over the beleaguered jail system. “All I say is give…
“NYC feds threaten Rikers Island with independent takeover” Manhattan federal prosecutors said Tuesday they were “alarmed” by recent violence at New York City jails — and threatened to request that the Department of Correction be taken over by an independent body if the agency doesn’t improve conditions at the disordered detention facilities. In a letter addressed to US…
“Lawmakers failed to get baseline data to judge bail reforms” They didn’t do their homework! The lawmakers in Albany who initially passed the controversial bail reforms failed to require that state agencies perform a baseline analysis of its impacts — making it impossible to determine what effect the law has had on crime in the…
“Rikers Island to soon deliver food directly to inmates” Room service is coming to Rikers Island. The beleaguered jail complex is set to close down their commissary store in favor of a new, digital ordering system described as a jailhouse “Uber Eats” that’ll deliver food and other sundries directly to detainees, an internal memo obtained…
“Pols, union lobbying Adams to build new complex on Rikers” Mayor Adams is feeling heat to drop ongoing plans to overhaul the Big Apple’s jail system in favor of building a new college-campus-like complex for inmates on Rikers Island. Adams had promised to deliver former Mayor de Blasio’s plan to shutter Rikers Island’s notorious jail…
“#Rikers Island inmates go on strike to protest conditions, COVID-19 lockdown” Inmates on Rikers Island are on a hunger strike in protest of COVID-19 lockdowns and the poor conditions at the chaotic prison facility. About 200 male inmates at the Robert N. Davoren Complex launched the protest on Saturday, said Alice Fontier, managing director of…
“#Rikers Island fire started by inmate injures at least three” An inmate at Rikers Island started a fire inside an infirmary at the beleaguered jail Friday night, sources told The Post, leaving at least three people injured. The blaze broke out around 8:15 p.m. on the second floor of a seven-story Rikers infirmary building where…