Tag: Molina, Louis A

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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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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