Tag: Correction Department (NYC)

How Rikers Island Became New York’s Largest Mental Institution

One night in fall 2015, an 18-year-old woman was standing on a subway platform in the Bronx when a homeless man named James Dolo came up from behind and used both hands to push her onto the tracks, the police said, injuring her. Jailed on an attempted murder charge, Mr. Dolo, then 38, soon was […]

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Man Charged in Grand Central Stabbings Slashed Inmate, Officials Say

A Bronx man facing attempted murder charges after he stabbed two girls at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day slashed a fellow Rikers Island detainee in the head and face on Thursday, seriously injuring him, according to Correction Department officials. It was not clear how the man, Steven Hutcherson, had obtained the 1.5-inch ceramic blade […]

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Rikers Detainees Were Kept Locked in Cells After Fire Broke Out

For nearly 30 minutes in April, Rikers Island staff members kept eight people locked in their cells while the workers tried to extinguish a fire and smoke spread through a housing unit, according to a report from the city’s Board of Correction. The fire was ignited in the complex’s North Infirmary Command, which houses people […]

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Louis Molina, Head of NYC’s Troubled Jails, Is Named Deputy Mayor for Safety

New York City’s embattled jails commissioner on Tuesday was moved to another position in Mayor Eric Adams’s administration after a tenure in which his failure to reverse the chaos and violence at the Rikers Island complex raised the possibility of a federal takeover. The commissioner, Louis A. Molina, will become the assistant deputy mayor for […]

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Queens Man Who Escaped Custody at a Hospital Is Captured After Month on the Run

Yenchun Chen, a Queens man accused of trying to sell fentanyl and crystal methamphetamine to an undercover officer, was being held at Rikers Island last month when he complained about chest pains, according to authorities. He spent several days at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Midtown Manhattan, where he was guarded by two Department of […]

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