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July 10, 2025 New York Amsterdam NewsAdopted FY26 budget ramps up efforts to close Rikers Island
Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island as the legal deadline approaches the two-year mark at the end of next month.
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July 08, 2025 The City
As Rikers Population Surges, Correction Department Bid to Add Beds Stalls
Despite a growing number of detainees, the city’s jail oversight board rejected a request to expand dorm capacity — leaving officials scrambling for alternatives.
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July 01, 2025 ENR East
Marine Terminal Planned for Site of Former New York City Floating Jail
Hunts Point Marine Terminal will create a point to unload freight off large ships
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June 19, 2025 Queens Chronicle
Celebrating Queens’ nonprofit ‘Helping Hands’
The Fortune Society, based in Long Island City, has a range of services but focuses on a specific clientele
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June 19, 2025 Queens Chronicle
Fortune has hope in humanity
LIC nonprofit assists formerly incarcerated people with reentry into society
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June 17, 2025 Le Figaro
“It’s a pressure cooker”: Rikers Island, New York’s cursed prison, riddled with drugs and violence
The problems reached such a level that federal authorities took control of the notorious prison complex from New York City. Slated for closure, it still holds nearly 7,000 inmates.
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