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A seemingly endless rotation between state forensic hospitals and city jails has meant that some mentally ill detainees stay in the system for years without ever standing trial.

One night in fall 2015, an 18-year-old woman was standing on a subway platform in the Bronx when a homeless

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Eight people have died behind bars this year so far, including three at the George R. Vierno Center, one of eight jails on Rikers Island. In 2022, city jails

To honor the legacy of the Black freedom fighters who founded Black August, join the fight to close Rikers.

A series of inhumane viral photos from Rikers Island has swept the internet and sparked discussion about prison reform, as images of inmates living in

Legal Aid and Brooklyn Defender Services want the city to pay $250 for 12,354 missed medical appointments which occurred because Department of Correction staff did not escort them to their doctor visits or there was no space in the jail clinics, according to a motion filed late Monday in Bronx Supreme Court.

A 31-page report from the oversight board disclosed that Dashawn Carter, who hung himself May 7, missed 92 medical appointments — including 76 because staff didn’t produce him during two Rikers incarcerations spanning 2019 to his death.

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Image courtesy of the #HALTsolitary Campaign. Thirteen people have died in custody of New York City’s abominable jails in 2022. On Thursday, August 30,…