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Last operating US prison ship, a grim vestige of mass incarceration, set to close in NYC
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoKenneth Williams spent his whole life in Brooklyn, but it wasn't until a night in 2018 when he...
Detainee has died after jump from Bronx jail barge into East River in escape attempt
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNEW YORK — A detainee who tried to escape by jumping from a jail barge in the Bronx into the East...
NYC jails Commissioner Louis Molina pleaded with federal monitor not to release damning report on...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 12 months agoNew York City Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina pleaded with the federal monitor overseeing jails not to release a disturbing report exposing apparent attempts to cover up five ...
Will Trump Be Safe in Jail?
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesIf Donald Trump is actually jailed for what appears to be a near-pathological inability...
NYC correction chief slammed for email pushing release of dying Rikers detainee to keep jails death...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNew York City jails’ top official came under fire Tuesday for an email in which he appeared to push for the compassionate release of a severely ill Rikers Island detainee to keep down the number ...
Detainee dead in plunge from Bronx jail barge fought to overcome 24 years in prison: ‘He was trying...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNEW YORK — After 24 years behind bars, mostly in state prison, Gregory Acevedo seemed like a survivor to his sister and mother — so they don’t understand what it was about being in the custody ...
Man, 28, dies while in custody on Rikers Island; 16th death at jail this year
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNEW YORK — Another inmate has died on Rikers Island, the New York City Department of Correction said Saturday, the 16th prisoner to die in custody this year. Erick Tavira, 28 died at the George ...
Ecuador Presidential Hopeful Wants Violent Prisoners Put to Sea
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 7 months ago(Bloomberg) -- With Ecuador now under siege by organized crime gangs headquartered in violent...
Black coaches lost everything after FBI college hoops case that wrecked careers, then fizzled
theGrio via AOL· 2 months agoFormer University of Arizona assistant basketball coach Book Richardson served 90 days in jail and...
Two NYC correction officers left bloodied, battered by inmates in one violent day on Rikers Island
NY Post metro via Yahoo News· 1 month agoRikers Island inmates assaulted two correction officers in separate attacks Sunday, leaving the...