Immigrant Detainees Complain of Poor Mental Health Care in NJ Facility
Mental health needs are going unaddressed in the facility, and 60 immigrant detainees have been placed on suicide watch since 2015, reports Documented.
Mental health needs are going unaddressed in the facility, and 60 immigrant detainees have been placed on suicide watch since 2015, reports Documented.
A Sing Tao Daily opinion piece takes the city to task for excluding the media from community conversations about plans for the new Chinatown jail.
ICE agents have made numerous arrests with civil warrants in NYS criminal court, and in some cases court officers assisted, reports Documented. A NYS bill would restrict the ability of ICE to make arrests with administrative rather than judicial warrants, Documented further reports.
Planned buildings are “way too tall,” says the head of the commission that recommended that Rikers be closed, Tribeca Trib reports. And City Limits reports on the Neighborhood Advisory Councils that will be weighing in.
As the Raise the Age policy takes effect Bronx residents welcome the arrival of almost 100 minors from Rikers Island to a detention center, El Diario/La Prensa reports.
Community leaders in Chinatown are angry that the city planned a new detention center without consulting the community, reports Sing Tao Daily.
A report by the Police Reform Organizing Project denounces ongoing abusive and discriminatory practices by the NYPD, El Diario/La Prensa reports.
The Bronx Free Press reports on a roundtable discussion.
“Whose War on Drugs?” – a #BHeard Town Hall – will be held May 23 in Brooklyn.
Coss Marte, of Dominican origin, was sentenced to 7 years and developed an exercise routine to do in jail. Today, he hires ex-convicts at the gym he owns, which he wants to turn into a franchise, El Diario/La Prensa reports.
After being sworn in during an investiture ceremony in Brooklyn, Sanket Bulsara became the first judge of South Asian descent for the Second Circuit, reports Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
A one-woman show about mass incarceration opens Sept. 13 at the National Black Theatre in Harlem, reports Amsterdam News.
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric González, of Puerto Rican heritage, seeks to be the first Latino district attorney elected in the state of New York, El Diario/La Prensa reports.
Pamela Harris, who represents Coney Island, Seagate and parts of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights in the New York State Assembly, talks with Brooklyn Daily Eagle about her years as a correction officer at Rikers Island and her work in getting Coney Island Generation Gap off the ground.
Around NYC on April 14, rallies and protests were held against Donald Trump, in favor of a $15 minimum wage and to urge the closing of Rikers Island. El Diario/La Prensa and Diario de Mexico USA report on the events.