Board of Correction

LISTEN: Gun Cops Aren’t Beat Cops, Even if Eric Adams Calls Them ‘Neighborhood Safety’ Cops

June 6, 2023, 9:55 p.m.Feb. 17, 2025, 4:40 p.m.

Hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel run down another jam-packed week in New York City, discussing everything from the Adams istration’s Rikers blackout and a self-policing experiment in Brownsville to the gift that the rapper Dres of Black Sheep gave to fans in the rain mourning Phife Dawg and much more. Subscribe to […]

Rikers Island

City Jails No Longer Announcing Deaths Behind Bars, Angering Watchdogs

May 31, 2023, 7:03 p.m.May 31, 2023, 7:09 p.m.

The Department of Correction says that the de Blasio-era practice of notifying the press when someone dies in a detention facility is over. Advocacy groups and a federal monitor say it’s part of a broader effort to hide wrongdoing.

Board of Correction

Jail Board Punts Plan to Digitize Rikers Mail

March 14, 2023, 7:44 p.m.March 15, 2023, 10:46 a.m.

The city’s jails commissioner wants the system, but the Board of Correction is letting his proposal stay in limbo — a win for opponents who call it illegally intrusive.

Solitary Confinement

Push to Ban Solitary in City Jails Stalls as Lawmakers Blame Staff Concerns

Feb. 14, 2023, 7:50 p.m.Feb. 16, 2023, 3:29 p.m.

A majority of City Council plus the public advocate say they want to get rid of so-called punitive segregation — but some jail staff aren’t so sure.

Jails

Rikers Island Guards Probed for Alleged Time Card Scam

Feb. 10, 2023, 4:34 p.m.Feb. 10, 2023, 4:34 p.m.

A Department of Correction captain and three officers are implicated in one scheme, which allegedly involved ID card check-ins when employees weren’t actually at the jail.

Incarceration

CEO of Nonprofit That Ran Scandal-Plagued Inmate Hotel Program Steps Down

Dec. 1, 2022, 7:00 p.m.Dec. 1, 2022, 7:48 p.m.

Julio Medina, the founder of Exodus Transitional Community, resigns as the nonprofit faces five separate investigations.

Jails

Federal Judge Kicks Rikers Receivership Question Down Road

Nov. 17, 2022, 7:46 p.m.Nov. 18, 2022, 7:54 a.m.

Any court battle over whether control of city jails should be transferred to a federal overseer will have to wait until April, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Thursday.

Technology

City Jails Move to Digitize Mail, Which Led Other Lockups Into Legal Fights

Nov. 4, 2022, 5:00 a.m.Nov. 3, 2022, 4:45 p.m.

Apart from the obvious privacy and intimacy issues that come with reading everyone’s letters and turning them into emails, experts note that similar efforts in other states haven’t reduced contraband.

Incarceration

Expand Solitary Confinement to 17 Hours, City Jails Commissioner Asks Board, Citing Violence

Oct. 13, 2022, 3:55 p.m.Oct. 14, 2022, 8:38 a.m.

Correction Department Commissioner Louis Molina wants to keep people in punitive segregation locked in their cells for longer — even as Rikers reformers are looking to end the practice entirely.

Incarceration

City Jails Oversight Board Finds Patterns of Neglect in Rikers Deaths

Sept. 12, 2022, 3:46 p.m.Sept. 12, 2022, 4:37 p.m.

A new report from the Board of Correction states that “a pervasive issue of insufficient supervision by correctional staff” was a factor in most tragedies behind bars.

Board of Correction

LISTEN: Gun Cops Aren’t Beat Cops, Even if Eric Adams Calls Them ‘Neighborhood Safety’ Cops

City Jails No Longer Announcing Deaths Behind Bars, Angering Watchdogs

Jail Board Punts Plan to Digitize Rikers Mail

Push to Ban Solitary in City Jails Stalls as Lawmakers Blame Staff Concerns

Rikers Island Guards Probed for Alleged Time Card Scam

CEO of Nonprofit That Ran Scandal-Plagued Inmate Hotel Program Steps Down

Federal Judge Kicks Rikers Receivership Question Down Road

City Jails Move to Digitize Mail, Which Led Other Lockups Into Legal Fights

Expand Solitary Confinement to 17 Hours, City Jails Commissioner Asks Board, Citing Violence

City Jails Oversight Board Finds Patterns of Neglect in Rikers Deaths

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