Even as Mayor Bill de Blasio has emptied out the city’s jails, the number of people who are placed in punitive segregation each year has remained about the same. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Polanco, Layleen”
N.Y.C. to Pay $5.9 Million in Death of Layleen Polanco at Rikers
By Gotham Rex on August 31, 2020
Layleen Polanco had a fatal epileptic seizure while in isolation, an investigation found, spurring calls to end solitary confinement and close the jail complex. Source: New York Times
17 Rikers Guards Will Be Disciplined in Death of Layleen Polanco
By Gotham Rex on June 26, 2020
Correction officers failed to check on Layleen Polanco, 27, as she was having a fatal epileptic seizure in a solitary cell, an investigation found. Source: New York Times
How a March for Black Trans Lives Became a Huge Event
By Gotham Rex on June 16, 2020
“The violence that’s affecting black trans women and black trans folks is finally getting the attention that it deserves,” an organizer of the Brooklyn march said. Source: New York Times