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The settlement in federal court with people who were held in solitary while they awaited trials is one of the largest involving the city’s Correction Department and its troubled lockups, including Rikers Island.
New York City agreed to pay up to $53 million to thousands of pretrial detainees wrongly held in isolation for up to 23 hours per day.
New York City has agreed to shell out more than $53 million to suspects held in harsh conditions -- including being confined to tight spaces and deprived of sunlight -- at jails on Rikers Island and in Manhattan ahead of their trials.
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The huge settlement ends a case called Miller v. City of New York which was filed in 2021 in federal court in Manhattan and claimed people were held on Rikers jails in isolation between 2018 and 2022 in violation of their due process rights. Each plaintiff in the class action suit will receive roughly $9,000, depending on how many days they were held in solitary confinement.
Two mentally impaired men died in Suffolk police custody. Investigations protected the officers. Police and prosecutors conducted flawed homicide probes in the deaths of Daniel McDonnell and Dainell Simmons, Newsday found.