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April 15, 2026 Queens Daily EagleMayor restores programming on Rikers months after cutting funding
The Adams administration late Monday announced that it planned to mostly restore nonprofit-provided programming for detainees on Rikers Island.
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March 04, 2024 Yahoo News
Ex-NYC Correction Department lawyer returns as senior advisor to commissioner
A former Correction Department general counsel who courted controversy in 2023 when he said heart failure killed a detainee later found to have died of a skull facture has returned to the agency as a senior advisor.
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February 29, 2024 Queens Daily Eagle
Nonprofits given ax by DOC last year return to work on Rikers for free
A little more than half a year after the Department of Correction cut a contract with half a dozen nonprofit service providers, two of those organizations have been asked to again provide programming to detainees on Rikers Island – and to pay for the services out of their own pockets.
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February 02, 2024 News 12 Bronx
Plan to provide housing for formerly incarcerated people at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi moving forward
New York City Health + Hospitals has approved a 99-year sublease for the Just Home project that will provide supportive housing for formerly incarcerated people with complex medical needs.
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February 01, 2024 The Appeal
Ronald McDonald House won’t let some parents with criminal records stay near their sick kids, lawsuit says
A federal complaint filed today alleges that the Ronald McDonald House is discriminating against people with sick children who happen to have been convicted of certain crimes in the past.
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January 31, 2024 Queens Daily Eagle
Detainee programming on Rikers declined after DOC cut ties with nonprofit providers
The Department of Corrections has struggled to provide detainees social service programming after cutting ties with five nonprofit service providers last summer, according to the recently released Mayor's Management Report.
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