Socialist mayor appoints Stanley Richards as corrections commissioner, making him the first ex-con to hold the role as New ...
Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.
Stanley Richards is taking over as correction commissioner at an inflection point for the city’s jails. Mayor Zohran Mamdani ...
Leadership of the notoriously problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex has officially fallen into federal hands with the ...
A federal judge chose an ex-CIA officer and Vermont corrections commissioner to lead operations at the troubled Rikers Island ...
The judge named Nicholas Deml to oversee the city jail, a change that will test Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ability to work with ...
Deml will be in charge of decision-making for the troubled jail complex and will report directly to a federal judge.
The notoriously violent Rikers is supposed to close in 2027 and be replaced with four smaller jails dispersed across the city ...
Rikers Island's new remediation manager, who was named on Tuesday, will have authority even beyond that of the city’s ...
A Rikers Island officer, an inmate, and the inmate's wife are charged with smuggling contraband into the jail, including tools, drugs, and engaging in wage theft.
Jail watchdogs found that correctional officers and medical staff on Rikers Island abandoned their posts and failed to check ...
After more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail ...
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