City Panel Likely To Recommend Closing New York City's Infamous Rikers Island Prison

Is Rikers Island Closing For Gentrification?

The New York City Council voted to close the jail.
by NewsOne Staff
03.30.20
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Family Of Black Trans Woman Who Died Speaks

Layleen Polanco was only 27 years old.
by NewsOne Staff
03.29.20
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NYC Will Pay For Kalief Browder's Life

He was wrongfully imprisoned.
by NewsOne Staff
03.27.20
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Exonerated Brooklyn Man Advocates For Reading In Prisons

After spending 27 years behind bars for a crime that he didn’t commit, John Bunn is advocating for reading in…
by NewsOne Staff
09.16.18
City Panel Likely To Recommend Closing New York City's Infamous Rikers Island Prison

Inmate’s Death Spotlights Staff's Disregard For His Life

The New York City Board of Corrections is investigating an in-custody deaths that occurred at Rikers Island.
by nigelroberts1
01.23.18
City Panel Likely To Recommend Closing New York City's Infamous Rikers Island Prison

First Jail To Close At Rikers Island

New York City will close its first jail on Rikers Island this summer as part of a 10-year plan to…
by Clarissa Hamlin
01.03.18
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Bronx Teen Avoids Same Fate As Kalief Browder

Pedro Hernandez, a Bronx teen who was wrongfully arrested for a crime that he didn't commit, was released from the…
by @coupcoup40cal, Global Grind
08.02.17
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Bronx Street Renamed 'Kalief Browder Way'

The renaming recognizes the injustice to Browder and his role in shedding light on prison abuse of minors.
by nigelroberts1
05.25.17
Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief...

The Case For Shuttering Rikers Before 10 Years

Criminal justice reform advocate Glenn Martin says there's too much at stake to wait a decade to close the notorious…
by Jeff Mays
05.08.17
Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief...

New York State Finally Agrees To #RaiseTheAge For…

Now that New York has ceased charging 16-and 17-year-olds as adults, North Carolina remains the only state in the U.S.…
by Angela Bronner Helm
04.10.17
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio Pledges To…

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that the dilapidated and notorious Rikers Island jail complex will close,…
by Clarissa Hamlin
04.01.17
Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief...

Mayor Bill De Blasio Plans To Renovate Rikers…

New York City's mayor ignores prison reform activists and plans renovation of controversial prison complex.
by NewsOne Staff
03.19.17
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Former Inmate And Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Fights…

Glenn Martin, a former Rikers inmate and advocate for criminal justice reform, has continually made the effort to have Rikers…
by NewsOne Staff
03.11.17
Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief...

Kalief Browder Film ‘Documents Heartbreaking, But Necessary Truth’

The documentary dives into the fundamentally broken parts of the criminal justice system and personifies it with Browder's story.
by NewsOne Staff
03.02.17
Sources: Texas cop in viral video gave up promotion for right to appeal suspension

NEWS ROUNDUP: Charges Dropped Against Texas Mother And…

The Fort Worth Police Department will drop charges against Jacqueline Craig and Brea Hymond.
by NewsOne Staff
04.05.18
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Kalief Browder’s Mom Dies Of ‘A Broken Heart’

Venida Browder, the 63-year-old the mother of the late Kalief Browder, who committed suicide after spending three horrific years being…
by Angela Bronner Helm
10.17.16
Ferguson's Fragile Recovery Shaken After Police Casualties

Cops Recover Remains Of Missing NYC Flight Attendant…

Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing…
by Jeff Mays
04.29.21
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“Kalief’s Law” Aims To Reform Pretrial Detention After…

The bill will be introduced to the Senate and if it passes, will be signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo.
by Charise Frazier
03.15.18
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Man Spends 5 Months In Rikers Island Because…

Forty-one-year-old Aitabdel Salem, a native of Algeria, spent five months on New York's Rikers Island because, uhm, officials failed to…
by NewsOne Staff
04.29.21
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Woman Who Spent 2 Years In Solitary Confinement…

Candie Hailey says the abuse she endured in solitary led her to attempt suicide "more than 100 times."
by Christina Coleman
04.10.18