By Matt Katz, January 25, 2023

City officials are rolling back protections for transgender detainees, leaving them vulnerable to rape, beatings and discrimination at Rikers Island, members of the City Council and previously incarcerated LGBTQ+ individuals alleged at a hearing on Wednesday.

Testimony at the hearing centered around trans women and their allies who said they had been assigned to male units where they were assaulted, removed for medical treatment, and then brought back to the same units, where they faced attacks.

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Por Anthony Payero, January 18, 2023

NUEVA YORK — El miércoles, cientos de enfermeras de NYSNA de Health+Hospitals/Mayorals de la Ciudad de Nueva York se reunieron para hablar y marchar en la sede corporativa de H+H, a medida que crecen las demandas de equidad en la salud.

Las enfermeras de NYC H+H/Mayorals atienden a los pacientes más vulnerables en la ciudad y han sido esenciales para salvar vidas durante la pandemia de COVID-19.

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To commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, hundreds of NYSNA nurses from New York City Health+Hospitals (NYC H+H) / Mayorals held a speak-out and march.

The march is on NYC H+H corporate headquarters with the message: We are nurses and we demand health equity. 

NYC H+H/Mayorals nurses care for NYC’s most vulnerable patients and have been essential in saving lives throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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By Curtis Brodner, January 18, 2023

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — The New York City Department of Correction is ending its policy of providing unmitigated security video access to the watchdog agency tasked with overseeing it, officials announced Wednesday.

The Board of Correction, which is responsible for ensuring the city’s prison system is operating legally and ethically, demanded the DOC restore access.

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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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