Harvey Weinstein accuses Rikers Island of substandard medical treatment, unhygienic conditions in legal claim
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers filed a legal claim alleging that he is receiving substandard medical treatment in unhygienic ...
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Rikers Island inmate faces cooking oil theft charges in Pa.
Police in Luzerne County say they extradited a prisoner in Rikers Island to face charges in a cooking oil theft investigation ...
Faulty fentanyl tests spurred NYC’s push to ban mail on Rikers Island
A push by New York City jail officials to block people detained at Rikers Island from receiving physical mail was based on ...
Judge holds NYC in contempt over worsening conditions at Rikers, says federal takeover likely
A federal judge ruled the Adams administration is in contempt of the 2015 decree on all 18 points, including key measures ...
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Judge ‘inclined’ to strip city of control of Rikers Island
A federal judge said that she was leaning toward taking the extreme measure of stripping the city of its control of Rikers ...
Judge Finds City in Contempt and Is ‘Inclined’ to Take Control of Rikers
The finding was a landmark in a court case that has stretched out over more than a decade. Plans for a receivership of New ...
NYC found in contempt over ‘grave’ conditions at Rikers Island — with fed takeover increasingly likely
New York City was found in contempt Wednesday over “grave” conditions at Rikers Island — as a judge said she was “inclined” to order a federal takeover of the ...
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Federal Judge Orders a Receiver Takeover for Rikers Island
A Manhattan federal judge in a long-running lawsuit against the city’s beleaguered Department of Correction ruled Wednesday ...
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Harvey Weinstein Files New Claim Over ‘Deplorable Conditions' at Rikers Island
Disgraced film producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein has filed a new legal claim with the Office of the NYC ...
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New York's Rikers Island Mail Ban Proposal Under Fire Amid Faulty Fentanyl Test Findings
NYC's Rikers Island mail ban proposal is questioned due to high rates of false positives in fentanyl field tests, where only ...
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Faulty fentanyl tests spurred NYC's push to ban mail on Rikers Island
In 2022, New York City’s jails commissioner, Louis Molina, issued a dire warning to local lawmakers: fentanyl was pouring into Rikers Island through the mail, he said, spurring an overdose ...