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AMNY

Third Rikers detainee dies this year as Adams admin pushes back on damning federal report

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AMNY

Council members intro plan to reduce Rikers population by nearly 3,000

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AMNY

City jails boss avoids providing up-to-date timeline on Rikers’ closure during council hearing

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Cargo Hold: NYC jails official sought to ease dress code established to block smuggling

By Reuven Blau, Greg B. Smith, and George Joseph, THE CITY

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City transfers portion of Rikers Island land from DOC, moves closer to Renewable Rikers

By Julia Moro

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Prisoners on Rikers Island stage hunger strike against inhumane conditions

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Adams announces new Corrections chief after latest death on Rikers Island

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Health

‘That means PPE works’: Lower COVID-19 infection rates in essential workers gives Cuomo optimism

By Mark Hallum

FILE PHOTO: The spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York

Politics

De Blasio vows to end 24-hour jail shifts after lawsuit calls them ‘death sentence’

By Reuters

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Health

City Health Dept. asks some traveling New Yorkers to self-isolate amid coronavirus outbreak

By Robert Pozarycki

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Elmhurst Hospital honors first responders at annual awards ceremony

By Max Parrott

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News

City confirms that sex offenders have been removed from a Bayside hotel

By Carlotta Mohamed

Bayside

‘We don’t know who else is in there’: Bayside lawmakers blast state for housing violent sex offenders at motel

By Carlotta Mohamed

City Council passes Lancman’s bill mandating that formerly jailed individuals know their voting rights

Politics

City Council passes Lancman’s bill mandating that formerly jailed individuals know their voting rights

By Carlotta Mohamed

City Council passes Queens lawmaker’s bill mandating that formerly jailed individuals know their voting rights

By Carlotta Mohamed

The Queens Detention Center and a municipal parking lot (foreground) in Kew Gardens will be transformed into a new community-based jail.

Mayor plans to build new Kew Gardens jail on site of Queens Detention Complex and municipal parking lot

By Robert Pozarycki

Corrections officer among three Queens residents indicted in jail drug smuggling case

By Robert Pozarycki

Fort-Totten

News

City urged to ‘immediately abandon’ plans for Corrections facility at Bayside’s Fort Totten

By Suzanne Monteverdi

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Bayside

‘What are you hiding?’: Lawmaker questions city’s future plans for Fort Totten in Bayside

By Suzanne Monteverdi

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Corrections officer charged with sexually abusing a young relative in East Elmhurst

By Robert Pozarycki

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Cops investigating death of woman held at Queens Central Booking in Kew Gardens

By Robert Pozarycki

Correction officer opens church in her Laurelton home

News

Correction officer opens church in her Laurelton home

By Patrick Donachie

Wills sponsors bill on voting rights for jailed

Politics

Wills sponsors bill on voting rights for jailed

By Patrick Donachie

Russel Platt was set to receive a proper veteran's burial like the one pictured above until it was found he was already buried on Hart Island.

Glendale

An indigent veteran set for Glendale funeral mistakenly buried on Hart Island

By Anthony Giudice

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