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Jul 29, 2024 · New York City Department of Correction officials announced the city would shut down the Manhattan Detention Complex, commonly known as “The Tombs,” in Lower Manhattan and the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island.
Aug 31, 2023 · Exactly four years before the legally mandated deadline to close Rikers Island by August 31, 2027, elected officials and members of the Campaign to Close Rikers gathered to kick off the countdown to closing Rikers.
Oct 20, 2023 · City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams announced a major new step in the contentious effort to close Rikers Island — marking the latest development in the decades-old push to shutter the...
On September 13, 2023, at a program hosted by the National Center for Access to Justice and the Access to Justice Initiative at Fordham Law School, former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman outlined a plan to close the infamous Rikers Island by 2027.
Aug 29, 2023 · New York City Mayor Eric Adams hasn’t hesitated to cast doubt on the city’s ability to close Rikers Island by 2027 – as the city is legally mandated to do. But at a fireside chat at New York Law School Tuesday morning, Adams suggested that the City Council needs to revisit the plan it approved in 2019 to close the troubled jails complex ...
- Annie Mcdonough
Oct 18, 2022 · New York City is behind schedule on one of the first projects in its plan to close the troubled Rikers Island jail complex, the latest sign of dysfunction at the city’s Department of...
5 days ago · October 11, 2024. Courts to speed up cases in effort to shrink Rikers’ population. October 11, 2024/ Jacob Kaye. Court officials said this week that they plan to institute a series of reforms to help lower the population on Rikers Island, which currently threatens to thwart the city’s legally-mandated plan to close Rikers by 2027.
