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The DOC has initiated an investigation into Clarence Woodward’s death.

Next Mile NYC launched in 2025 and is expanding to people across the city who have had past involvement with the criminal justice system.

The agency put more women at risk because it did not take allegations made by formerly incarcerated women seriously, the attorney said.

So far this year 14 people have died at Rikers or shortly after being released from custody there, according to Gothamist’s tracking of Department of Correction reports.

A City Council bill could provide a new path forward.

A state Supreme Court justice said the action was invalidated due to an "impermissible appearance of a conflict of interest."

Defendants who were found unfit to stand trial waited on Rikers an average of 79 days as of last fall, according to the Independent Rikers Commission report.

Rikers had 5 deaths through all of 2024. This year there have been at least 4.

Having more people in the jails complicates the plan to close them, according to a new report.

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court on Friday, paints a picture of panic when the blaze broke out at the jail's North Infirmary Command unit in April 2023.