The guards entered the women’s cells to forcibly remove them. One woman was punched almost 30 times. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Prisons and Prisoners”
They Pay $500 a Month for a Loft in Brooklyn
By Gotham Rex on September 27, 2022
A lucky couple lives on the top floor of a building that was once a potato chip factory. Source: New York Times
Jails Boss Pushed for Dying Man’s Release to Limit Rikers Death Count
By Gotham Rex on September 27, 2022
Louis A. Molina, New York City’s jail commissioner, told his senior staff to ensure that a dying man was “off the department’s count.” Source: New York Times
Billy McFarland Is Out of Jail and Ready for His Next Move
By Gotham Rex on September 10, 2022
Five years after the Fyre Festival, the convicted fraudster is planning a comeback. Source: New York Times
Rikers Guards Watched as Man Bled From Razor Wound
By Gotham Rex on August 30, 2022
A captain and two correction officers were suspended last week for failing to intervene for at least 10 minutes after a man slit his throat with a razor, bleeding out in his cell. Source: New York Times
Tracking the Deaths in the Rikers Island Jail Complex 2022
By Gotham Rex on August 15, 2022
12 have died so far this year, a pace suggesting last year’s eight-year high will be surpassed. Source: New York Times
Ricardo Cruciani, Who Sexually Assaulted Patients, Found Dead at Rikers
By Gotham Rex on August 15, 2022
Ricardo Cruciani was found with a sheet around his neck in a shower weeks after his conviction. He was the 12th person to die this year in custody or shortly after release. Source: New York Times
City’s Admissions That It Can’t Care for Rikers Detainees May Propel Suits
By Gotham Rex on August 6, 2022
The family of Herman Diaz, who choked to death on an orange, filed the first case relying on the documents. Dozens more may follow. Source: New York Times
How New Yorkers Push the Limits
By Gotham Rex on August 3, 2022
From speed zones to traffic crossings to parking rules, city residents try to get away with going a little faster, or cutting it close, or being a little later. Source: New York Times
New York Prison Officials Clip Map From Banned Book on Attica Riot
By Gotham Rex on August 1, 2022
In response to the author’s First Amendment lawsuit, officials said the alteration was necessary for “security reasons.” Source: New York Times
Rikers Island Guards Charged With Misconduct in Teen’s Suicide Attempt
By Gotham Rex on July 25, 2022
The New York City correction officers and a captain stood by for nearly eight minutes as Nicholas Feliciano tried to hang himself in a jail cell. Source: New York Times
Werner Reich, Who Learned Magic in Auschwitz, Dies at 94
By Gotham Rex on July 21, 2022
He was 16 when a fellow inmate, a magician, taught him a card trick in the barracks of the extermination camp. He called it a “miracle.” Source: New York Times
U.S. Pays $4.2 Million to Victims of Jail Guard’s Long-Running Sex Abuse
By Gotham Rex on July 18, 2022
Six women sued, saying they were abused by one guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a now-closed federal jail. Source: New York Times
Rikers Officer Fired After Latest New York City Jail Death
By Gotham Rex on July 11, 2022
Elijah Muhammad, 31, had been held in the George R. Vierno Center for a month before he died in an incident that is now under review. Source: New York Times
Prosecutors Defend Decision to Place R. Kelly on Suicide Watch
By Gotham Rex on July 3, 2022
The singer, who was given a 30-year sentence last week for sex trafficking and racketeering, is challenging the decision by jail authorities. Source: New York Times