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Striking a balance: Judge rightly stops City Council’s over-broad solitary ban on Rikers
The City Council was wrong to write a law purporting to ban solitary confinement on Rikers Island, as it would significantly ...
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Council Set to Pass Bill Mandating Disclosure of Rikers Deaths
In May 2023, after a spike in deaths on Rikers Island, city jail officials suddenly stopped notifying the media shortly after ...
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Dreams deferred, not denied: Graduation held for young inmates at Rikers Island | Exclusive
Rikers Island has a decades-long reputation of spiraling dysfunction, brutality, and even death against those awaiting trial. The East River prison allowed Eyewitness News onto their grounds to ...
Rikers Island graduation offering second chance at redemption
The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and ...
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From Convicted Killer to Magazine Writer: One Prisoner’s Bid for Mercy
John J. Lennon, imprisoned for a brutal 2001 murder, is now a published writer in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Will ...
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Federal judge blocks solitary confinement ban from taking effect on Rikers
A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...