Rikers Island jail is “prepared to deal with the situation”, should Donald Trump be given prison time over continued violations of his gag order, the New York City mayor has insisted. Eric Adams was quizzed about the unprecedented situation on Tuesday, but told reporters that the prison would “adjust to whatever comes our way”. The […]
Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized Saturday for a battery of tests after returning to Rikers Island jail ahead of a court appearance next week. The 72-year-old former Hollywood powerhouse was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan for a more thorough exam after he was checked out by doctors at Rikers, his attorney, Arthur Aidala, said. Aidala […]
Harvey Weinstein is back in Rikers Island jail and will appear before a judge next week after New York’s highest court overturned his 2020 rape conviction. The 72-year-old former Hollywood powerhouse was transferred on Friday from Mohawk Correctional Facility, about 42 miles from Syracuse, New York, to a medical ward at Rikers in New York […]
Donald Trump’s latest courthouse antic drew ire on social media. The former president on Thursday left the Manhattan criminal court hosting his hush money trial with a stack of papers in his hands. The presumptive GOP nominee claimed they were “stories from legal experts saying how this is not a case.” “The case is ridiculous,” […]
NEW YORK — The City of New York will pay more than $28 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a woman whose grandson was hospitalized after he tried to take his own life while in custody on Rikers Island. Madeline Feliciano alleges three Rikers Island correction officers and a captain waited nearly […]
The man known as one of New York City’s “most notoriously negligent landlords” was briefly hospitalized after an attack at Rikers Island. Daniel Ohebshalom surrendered to police on Thursday after allegedly failing to perform hundreds of court-ordered repairs on some Manhattan properties he owns. He was taken to Rikers where he’s expected to serve up […]
Mayor Eric Adams has blamed his unpopular budget cuts to municipal services on a migrant crisis that has so far cost the city more than $4 billion. Now, his team is identifying a new target: the mandated closure of the detention complex on Rikers Island that Adams inherited but never fully embraced. City budget director […]