January 23, 2023 by Akela Lacy
THE NEW YORK CITY Department of Correction wants to stop incarcerated people from receiving physical mail inside city jails. The department, known as DOC, said the proposed changes are part of an effort to increase safety in the jail system by cracking down on illegal contraband following the deaths of 19 people last year at Rikers Island, the city’s jail complex.
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January 24, 2023 by George Joseph
In December 2021, as Christmas was approaching, a trio of trans women decided to bring some holiday cheer to their dorm at the Rose M. Singer Center, a jail complex on the northern edge of Rikers Island. They were going to have a ball.
The stage was nothing special, a small beige floor in front of rows of cold metal benches in the dorm’s common area.
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January 19, 2023 by Graham Rayman and Elizabeth Keogh
A City Council member said she’s glad the Correction Department has taken “meaningful” action to search Rikers Island workers for contraband — an effort that has brought at least one arrest.
Police, city sheriff’s officers and Correction Department officials searched employees and their vehicles as they arrived at Rikers early Wednesday.
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January 19, 2023 by Michelle Ross
NEW YORK (PIX11) – A new bill would require the NYPD to host gun buyback programs more frequently throughout the five boroughs with the monetary reward coming out of the department’s budget.
New York City Council members Carlina Rivera and Rafael Salamanca Jr. introduced the new legislation on Thursday.
“This gun buyback program is, I think, one part of what could be a really successful multi-pronged effort to reduce gun violence,” Rivera said.
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January 19, 2023
A new bill aims to push the NYPD to incentivize New Yorkers in getting guns off the streets.
The new gun buyback bill has been proposed by City Council members Rafael Salamanca Jr. and Carlina Rivera. Their main approach is to make sure these programs are required to happen every month citywide and that compensation for those who participate must come from the NYPD’s budget.
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January 18, 2023 by Bobby Cuza
Recently, NY1 rode along with a law enforcement task force, led by the New York City Sheriff’s office, as it raided stores on the Upper West Side illegally selling marijuana.
But within days, according to Manhattan Councilmember Gale Brewer’s office, those same stores had simply re-stocked — a sign of the difficulty in stamping out the illegal market.
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January 12, 2023, by Dan Krauth
RIKERS ISLAND, New York (WABC) — Drugs are getting smuggled past the barbed wire fences at Rikers Island and 7 On Your Side Investigates uncovered how it’s happening and a new way to potentially stop it that is sparking opposition.
Last year was the deadliest year at Rikers in a decade.
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by Greg Smith, published January 4, 2022
“Two days before Josefa Bonet died on Oct. 1, she asked her doctor for an unusual test, to see if she had arsenic in her blood.
Bonet was living at Jacob Riis Houses in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Just a month earlier, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) revealed that lab tests had found arsenic in the water at her development — only to reverse course and claim there was no arsenic.
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by Dean Moses, published December 29, 2022
“New York City’s very first legal marijuana dispensary was officially christened in the East Village on Dec. 29 with its first sale.
Chris Alexander, the executive director of the state’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) made the first sale, buying $96 of marijuana products at 750 Broadway, a shop opened and operated by Housing Works, a non-profit that fights homelessness and HIV.
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by Ariama C. Long, published December 29, 2022
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After an internal New York City Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) audit was conducted and consequently buried in 2020, suspicions of racial biased practices that disrupt Black, brown and low-income families were confirmed. In the meantime, elected officials have been rallying for systemic change and the Family Miranda law to properly inform parents of their rights.
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