#rikers-island

#rikers-island

Coss Marte is an ex-convict who has, since his release, founded ConBody, a successful boot camp-style fitness and nutrition counseling service based on his experience in prison.I've been in and out of jail since I was 13.My last stretch was 4 years: one at Rikers Island, about 2 at Greene Correctional Facility, and I bounced around a couple of others.

As prosecutors built a criminal case against Donald J. Trump for his role in a hush money payment to a porn star, they interviewed several key witnesses: Mr. Trump's onetime fixer, the former publisher of the National Enquirer and the actress herself.There is one central player who did not cooperate with the Manhattan district attorney's office: Mr. Trump's longtime financial gatekeeper.

Former NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly is speaking out publicly for the first time about a Rikers Island inmate's plot to behead him and bomb police headquarters some 16 years ago.But Kelly wasn't scared, the longest-serving commissioner in NYPD history told The Post in an interview ahead of a new A&E docu-series detailing how authorities foiled the 2007 scheme.

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Lawyers for people detained on Rikers Island intend to ask a federal judge to take control of the jail complex away from New York City, according to a letter filed with the court on Monday, setting the stage for a potentially pivotal hearing this week.The lawyers' intention was conveyed in a letter filed by a federal official appointed to monitor the island lockup, where most of the city's jails are and where close to 5,900 people are held.

A correction officer at the Rikers Island prison complex was seriously injured on Monday after an inmate stabbed him more than a dozen times in the back of the head, the corrections officers' union said in a statement.Earlier today, while working in the protective custody unit at the Anna M. Kross Center, one of our correction officers was brutally stabbed in the back of his head approximately 15 times by an inmate, Benny Boscio, the president of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, said in the statement on Monday night.

Teyana Taylor and Aaron Kingsley Adetola play a mother and son in A Thousand and One.Sundance Institute A Thousand and One begins in 1994, shortly before a 22-year-old woman named Inez is released from Rikers Island.We don't know much about her, but Teyana Taylor, the electrifying actor who plays her, tells us plenty just from the brashly confident way Inez strides through her old Brooklyn stomping grounds after a year away.

New York City Department of Corrections (DOC) Commissioner Louis Molina punted on giving an up-to-date timeline for the closure of Rikers Island and transition to borough-based jails when asked for one by City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Thursday.The speaker's request that Molina give a current timeframe for shutting down the troubled island jail complex which is legally required to shutter by 2027 came during a council hearing examining Mayor Eric Adams' Fiscal Year 2024 preliminary budget for DOC and other agencies making up the city's criminal justice system.

In an unusually forceful rebuke, Mayor Adams' two fellow citywide elected officials and the City Council speaker joined Thursday to blast what they see as his wavering commitment to shut down Rikers Island by a 2027 deadline.The deadline was established by City Council legislation signed into law by former Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2019.