District 12 City Council Member Kevin Riley and District 33 City Council Member Lincoln Restler lead a rally entitled, “A Pathway to Closing Rikers Island and Ending Mass Incarceration in NYC,” by safely reducing the jail population at City Hall in Manhattan on Tuesday, April 11, together with other council members and advocates for the […]
A group of eight State lawmakers held a press conference at the entrance to Rikers Island jail on Thursday, April 6, amid, they said, reports of “continued unsafe and inhumane conditions,” at the jail. The visit was scheduled as legislators awaited updates from three-way budget negotiations, and in the context of those negotiations, they […]
The following is an extended version of the story that appears in our latest print edition. Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark made history in 2016 when she was elected as the first African American woman to ascend to the role of district attorney in the State of New York, as well as […]
The New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) announced on Monday, March 13, the three organizations it has recommended for funding with the aim of operating the NYC Family Court Alternative to Detention (ATD) programs. These are the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES), which will serve youth in The Bronx and […]
NYC Department of Correction (DOC) officials said a person in custody at the North Infirmary Command (NIC), part of Rikers Island detention center, has died, marking the first death of a person in DOC custody in 2023. The news was confirmed by department officials on Saturday, Feb. 4 at around 11.20 a.m. “Marvin Pines, […]
This story was originally published on Aug. 22, 2022, before the August 2022 Democratic primary election in S.D. 33. State Sen. Gustavo Rivera has since won the S.D. 33 Democratic primary and is now the Democratic nominee in the S.D. 33 general election on Nov. 8. Your poll site may have changed. Check your voting […]
The following is a slightly extended version of the story that appears in our latest print edition. The recent State and congressional redistricting process has been confusing to put it mildly, but it has had one benefit. Because the State senate and congressional primary elections have been delayed to Aug. 23, it means voters […]
It has been more than a year since recreational marijuana use for adults has been legal in the State of New York. Signed into law on March 31, 2021 and known as MRTA or The Marihuana Regulation & Taxation Act [sic], as reported, it also created a new Office of Cannabis Management (OCM), governed by […]
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Thursday, May 5, that a Rikers Island inmate had been sentenced to nine years in prison for assaulting a Rikers Island medical clinic doctor, taking an assistant to a doctor hostage, and threatening to take another doctor hostage, in three separate events. According to the investigation, […]
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