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Rikers Island detainees earn their school degrees as Mayor Mamdani speaks at graduation
The Brunswick News 17 Jun 2026
NEW YORK — Rikers Island for the most part makes headlines for violence and disorder, so much so that New York City has moved to close the notorious jail complex. But on Tuesday, there was a palpable shift in the ... .
Luigi Mangione legal team to make psychiatric defense in state murder trial
AM New York 17 Jun 2026
The prosecutors also announced they’re seeking to move Mangione from his locations at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to Rikers Island for the rest of the state trial in order to make it ...
Wrongful arrest? Lawsuit charges that city’s Correction Department cuffed public defender on Rikers Island over ...
The Villager 16 Jun 2026
A jail on Rikers Island ... Public defender’s arrest caused client on Rikers Island more problems, suit alleges ... This meant DeJesus had to find new counsel, delaying his trial – and keeping him on Rikers – for nearly another year.
Forgery, ID theft suspect extradited to Newtown from Rikers Island, police say
News Times 15 Jun 2026
Newtown police say Raynor is charged with two counts of first-degree forgery, one count of third-degree identity theft and criminal attempt at third-degree larceny ... .
NYC lawyer wrongfully arrested for contraband drugs defamed by Rikers Island union, lawsuit says
The Brunswick News 12 Jun 2026
NEW YORK — A public defender lawyer arrested on Rikers Island and turned into the poster child for drug smuggling is suing the correction officers union and its president — after the supposedly pot-laced papers he brought into the jail ... .
Rikers captain allegedly extorted underlings for lux handbags and rides to casino during work hours
New York Post 12 Jun 2026
A greedy Rikers Island captain shook down her underlings for a luxe bag and rides to a casino — saying she’d only approve their timesheets if they complied with her lavish demands, the feds charged Thursday.
Rikers Employee Charged With Extorting Corrections Officers for Gifts
New York Times 11 Jun 2026
A supervisor at the Rikers Island jail complex threatened to withhold overtime pay and vacation days from officers who did not give her gifts and run her errands, prosecutors said ... .
Rikers Island DOC captain dubbed ‘Terror of the Tombs’ arrested for extortion, wage fraud to ...
AM New York 11 Jun 2026
A Rikers Island NYC Department of Correction (DOC) captain was indicted for extortion and federal program funds theft, federal authorities from the U.S ... at Rikers Island, but investigators allege she showed up at the casino around 2.34 p.m.
Caitlyn Jenner biographer and Robin Riker's ex William Hasley found dead on hiking trail at 78
The Daily Mail 09 Jun 2026
Caitlyn Jenner's friend and biographer William Hasley has been identified as a hiker who collapsed and died on LA's Runyon Canyon on Saturday ....
‘The whole of New York is stressed right now’: how Knicks finals fever reached Rikers Island
The Guardian 05 Jun 2026
... a housing unit deep inside the George R Vierno Center, an 850-bed jail and one of eight active facilities on New York’s Rikers Island ... An exterior view of the Rikers Island jail complex on 3 June 2026.
NYC budget: Mamdani and City Council urged to boost funding for jail alternatives to reduce ...
The Villager 05 Jun 2026
Advocates and City Council members seeking to get the city moving on closing Rikers Island say Mayor Zohran Mamdani needs to allocate tens of millions more in the new NYC budget to make it happen sooner rather than later.
Ronkonkoma man ordered to pay back workers' comp he pocketed while city correction officer
Newsday 02 Jun 2026
A former Rikers ... During his tenure Concepcion said "he was injured while on duty at Rikers Island during incidents with incarcerated individuals requiring the use of force," the release said.
Second Rikers Island Correction Officer Pleads Guilty To Making False Statements To Obtain Workers’ Compensation Benefits (United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York)
Public Technologies 01 Jun 2026
Liman to making false statements relating to healthcare matters in connection with use of force incidents that took place within Rikers Island ... officer and was assigned to work at Rikers Island.
New York state legislators see no path forward for bill to fix judicial shortages until 2029
The Villager 21 May 2026
New York’s courts have a shortage of judges in high-volume parts of the state, and the knock-on effects can be traumatic ... Pre-trial detainees are stuck on Rikers Island with their case backlog ... The problems that the bill is meant to address are acute.
2 Die at Troubled Rikers Jail Complex in 24 Hours
New York Times 20 May 2026
The deaths, of a 40-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman, bring to four the number of fatalities at Rikers Island this year ... .