Tag: Rikers Island

New York City prisons are still a disaster 40 years after the projector was built

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Records show that living conditions in New York City’s prison system remain dire — even after 40 years of federal oversight by a court-appointed monitor brought in at taxpayer expense. The Department of Corrections in the deeply troubled city came under intense scrutiny in the mid-1970s, when former trial detainees filed seven different class-action lawsuits alleging that incarceration conditions were so poor that their constitutional rights were violated. In 1982, then-Manhattan federal judge Maurice Lasker signed a settlement agreement that required the DOC to significantly improve the “environmental conditions” of…

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Manhattan DA office cuts bonds to release alleged shooter Darius Mongin

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The Post has learned that one of the attempted murder suspects accused in the Upper West Side shooting originated from Rikers Island thanks to “sympathetic” prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office who helped get his guarantee. Darius Mongin, 20, had been held in the chaotic prison complex since October on charges that he shot two people, one of whom was an 81-year-old who appeared to be an innocent bystander. But he broke up earlier this month after prosecutors agreed to cut his guarantee from $500,000 to $100,000 — citing…

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The Rikers Island fire started with at least three prisoners injured

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An inmate on Rikers Island set a fire inside a dispensary at the besieged prison Friday night, sources told The Post, injuring at least three people. The fire broke out at about 8:15 p.m. on the second floor of the seven-story Rikers Infirmary building where nine inmates are staying, according to the New York Department of Defense. A union source in the Department of Corrections said that the inmate placed him. “Everyone has been accounted for. A small fire in a condominium at Rikers Island’s North Infirmary Command, caused heavy…

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It’s a happy day to replace Bill de Blasio, the worst mayor ever!

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It’s been so long, Bill de Blasio! New York may have been a tale of two cities when I arrived, but not anymore. Now it’s just one city, a city defined by our hatred of Bill de Blasio. As New York City picks its next mayor, Billy Bolshevik is officially a lame duck. Farewell to the stumbling Lemaux of the crazy left. Auf Federchen, Warren Wilhelm. Das Vidania, Dinglebury. It’s a divided city that can’t even agree on simple things like which pizza to go to, or whether you should…

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Feckless de Blasio denies the horrors of Rikers and rapes

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When it comes to dealing with the infernal horror on Rikers Island, Mayor Bill de Blasio doesn’t want to challenge his assumptions that he knows nothing of. In response to The Post that published photographs last weekend of the inhumane conditions in the island’s prisons, de Blasio claimed that Washington Post’s reporting on what happened weeks ago “doesn’t reflect what it is now.” Entire setting changed. More space [has] He said – and then went on to blame corrections officers’ failure to show up for duty due to overcrowding at…

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