In the face of a lawsuit over systemic civil rights violations against teenage inmates, a federal monitor will oversee sweeping reforms at New York’s Rikers Island Jail complex as part of a settlement between the city and the U.S. Justice Department, according to Reuters. The decision comes after former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and […]
A New York City Department of Corrections officer was criminally charged Monday with lying about not leaving her post while an inmate “baked to death” in his 101-degree Farenheit Rikers Island jail cell earlier this year, the New York Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: Attorney General Seeks To End Racial Profiling By Feds Bronx District […]
