Bronx District Attorney says elaborate scheme involving thousands of bribes brought drugs, other contraband inside Seventeen people, involving inmates and at least two correction officers, have been arrested as part of a major Rikers Island smuggling investigation, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday afternoon. Two corrections officers and one Rikers Island …
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The legislative session is in full swing, with raising the age of criminal responsibility at the top of the priority list for members of the Raise The Age-NY campaign, myself included. The Campaign for Youth Justice reports that 250,000 youth are tried, sentenced or incarcerated as adults each year in the United States. …
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At a press conference on Wednesday, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer presented data on the human and financial costs of the city’s correctional facilities, offering stern warning on the future of Rikers Island, the prison complex he called a “humanitarian crisis.” According to Stringer, claims filed for personal injuries–both from routine accidents, …
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Corrections Officer Nicole Bartley, 30, has been arrested for having an illegal sexual relationship with an inmate and smuggling marijuana. Bartley is now the 26th officer at Rikers Island to have been arrested for misconduct since 2014. Drug-sniffing dogs indicated the smell of marijuana on Bartley Saturday morning and although officers …
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Kenneth Creighton would like to have back the five years of his life he waited beyond bars in Rikers Island for a trial that would never happen. Now he’s suing the city of New York for the lost time. Creighton was only seventeen years old when he was arrested in …
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Before we even express our outrage over the apathetic response to both losing AND finding said drugs, shouldn’t we be outraged that a holding facility keeps these drugs on-site following confiscation? Via Gawker: There is, somewhere inside the Rikers Island Correctional Facility, a safe stocked with with a stash of …
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A female inmate in Riker’s Island mailed her sister samples of the clothing she was wearing while she was violently raped by a guard. The unnamed officer has been reassigned to a different unit. Last year 28 sexual assaults were report to NYPD from Riker’s Island. More at New York …
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Christen Conyers had been on parole for about sixteen months on the evening of June 22nd, when he rode his bike out of the Amsterdam Houses in Harlem to break his Ramadan fast at a fried chicken restaurant around the corner. Full Story – Gothamist
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